The shofar is one of the oldest musical instruments, but today is seen as something more holy and less musical, as the Shofar in the Bible is said to have been used during the Temple service. Today, the shofar is blown a few times a year; during the weekdays of the Hebrew month of Elul […]
Holy Land History: Tel Aviv’s White City
Tel Aviv wasn’t always the city that never sleeps, in fact, there once was a time when Tel Aviv was just a quiet costal town. In 1909, a group of Jews gathered together on the beach just north of Jaffa and decided that this would be where they would live. They divided up the sandy […]
The Holy City of Jerusalem: The International City
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and is at the heart of the Jewish people. Jews have been inhabiting the city for thousands of years, but the history of Jerusalem has had a strong Christian influence as well. Jews have only been a majority of Jerusalem’s population since the Ottoman Empire, and before they were […]