'Letters from Home': Exploring tension among Jews in in the Second Temple era - review
The relationship between the Jewish communities of Egypt and Israel created an underlying tension, not unlike the modern-day relationship between world Jewry and the Jews of the State of Israel.
A RECONSTRUCTION of the blue-tiled Ishtar Gate, the northern entrance to Babylon, on display at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. (photo credit: Rictor Norton/Wikimedia Commons)ByALAN ROSENBAUM