What’s Really in the Vatican Library?
Disspelling some misconconceptions about the Vatican’s collections of Jewish manuscripts
I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked whether the Vatican has the menorah from the Beis Hamikdash. (The answer is no.) But I am never asked about the more then 600 Hebrew manuscripts they do have, which have been available to the scholarly community for years.
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Rediscovering Ir David
New Finds Revealed in Ancient City
The exciting results of archaeological excavations of ancient Yerushalayim have been coming to light steadily since the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six Day War. More recently, the area of Ir David, the City of David, to the south of Har Habayis (Temple Mount), has been yielding amazing discoveries.
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Communities and Context
Courtesy of Brian Jeffery Beggerly, Wikimedia Commons
Don’t judge the ultra-Orthodox solely by the stories of those who’ve left it
For months now, we’ve been treated in Jewish newspapers to a spate of articles about a small number of people who have left Hasidic or other ultra-Orthodox communities. In some cases, these people have been asked to write columns, sometimes based on books that they have published on their experiences. Read more >
