In May, Galilee looks like a giant quilt of vibrant green and golden yellow squares with fields ready for the early summer wheat harvest. Hiking these hills in April, I picked off heads of waist-high young wheat nibbling on the kernels inside, imitating the apostles who Mathew describes picking heads of grain and eating them…
Ancient Jewish sources speak of a certain Nikai, who was a scribe at the synagogue of Magdala in the 2nd century AD. According to some, he was an exemplary Jew: every Friday morning he would travel from Magdala to Jerusalem, give a lesson on the scriptures in the Temple, and then return before the sunset…
Dearest Magdala Family, We have heard countless times the expression “the end of the tunnel is near”…. Today, in the Holy Land we are living in a contradictory situation. On the one hand, the pandemic has been defeated, thanks to very strict measures of control, distancing and vaccination of the population. I have to admit…
