Jewish Journal8d
Dissecting the Origins of Dayenu
The development of "Dayenu," that Haggadah ditty that recaps the many miracles the Israelites experienced throughout the Book ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency8mon
Why some synagogues are screening ‘Legend of Destruction,’ a 2021 film about the Second Temple, on Tisha B’Av this year
about the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. To Zablocki, it could not have felt more urgent. That feeling has only intensified this year. “It was relevant before Oct. 7.
'Letters from Home': Exploring tension among Jews in in the Second Temple era
Following the deportation of Jews to Babylonia between 597 BCE and 586 BCE, most of them lived outside the Land of Israel.
Smithsonian Magazine10y
What Is Beneath the Temple Mount?
In the first century B.C., Herod expanded and refurbished a Second Temple built by Jews who had returned after their banishment. It is here that, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus Christ ...
Boston College7y
INFORMATION SHEET
Prominent Features of Rabbinic Judaism (as put in writing by the rabbis in the centuries after the destruction of the Second Temple) Prayer, the performance of God's commands (mitzvot), and the study ...