The Western Wall (Ha-Kotel Ha-Maaravi) was a retaining wall that Herod the Great built more than 2,000 years ago when he ambitiously expanded the Temple Mount. While the First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians ...

Los Angeles’ First Rabbi With around 200 Jewish families living in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, Joseph Newmark, the lay-rabbi and Judaic scholar of the community, convinced Rabbi Abraham Wolf Edelman to move to Los ...