What Did the Beit Hamikdash Look Like?
There have been countless artistic representations of the Beit Hamikdash in the nearly 2,000 years since its destruction.
What’s the Truth about . . . the Legend of Two Brothers and the Temple Mount?
Misconception: God’s choice of Mount Moriah as the site for the Beit Hamikdash is based on a midrash involving two brothers who expressed their mutual devotion to each other by each surreptitiously giving of his grain to the other. Fact: This beautiful and widespread fable has no basis in traditional Jewish literature. Background: The holiest […]
What’s the Truth About…Har HaBayit?
MISCONCEPTION: Many religious Jews do not visit Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount) today. This is because we are all presumed to be in a state of tumat met (ritual impurity due to “contact” with the dead), and a tamei met is prohibited from ascending Har HaBayit. (Since the removal of tumat met requires the use […]
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Lot’s Daughters 
The Ghosts of Rosh Hashana’s Past 
9/11 Ten Years Later
By R. Rosenfeld He asked me “Are you headed north?” I nodded and he followed. The two o
No one spoke. We all moved as if we were underwater. And somehow, then we had to make R
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic,
9/11Lot’s Daughters The Ghosts of Rosh Hashana’s Past 9/11 Ten Years Later
By R. Rosenfeld He asked me “Are you headed north?” I nodded and he followed. The two o
No one spoke. We all moved as if we were underwater. And somehow, then we had to make R
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic,
9/11Lot’s Daughters The Ghosts of Rosh Hashana’s Past 9/11 Ten Years Later
By R. Rosenfeld He asked me “Are you headed north?” I nodded and he followed. The two o
No one spoke. We all moved as if we were underwater. And somehow, then we had to make R
When the terror attack occurred, Avremel was fifty-five; his friend Ed, a quadriplegic,