Robert J. Wolf MD

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The Israeli National Museum (Part 1) is Jerusalem’s art and archaeological museum. It was established in 1965 as Israel’s largest and foremost cultural institution. Bringing us the illuminated Dead Sea Scrolls in the round, ancient manuscripts discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves near Khirbet Qumran, on the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea. Mentioned in Rabbinic […]

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Jerusalem is a city in Western Asia. Situated on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, it is one of the oldest cities in the world and is considered to be a holy city for the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem […]

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Thinking of and thanking our Veterans, not only in the U.S. but also our staunch allies in the Holy Land.   Where the late afternoon sun gives us a message over the Judea Desert, the site of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish and Hebrew religious manuscripts discovered in 1946/7 at the Qumran Caves in […]

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Underneath the Wailing Wall in the Holy Land- actually a continuation of the same, the original version brilliantly excavated! Some of the largest rocks weigh several tons! The Western Wall, known in the West as the Wailing Wall and in Islam as the Buraq Wall, is an ancient limestone wall in the Old City of […]

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A Beautiful church adjacent to the Western Wall, a glimpse of the preserved narrow streets in the Old City (don’t be shocked by the cycles and electronic vehicles flying by you!). “Roam the streets of Jerusalem, search her squares, look about and take note.” Jeremiah 5:1 Not just the synagogues and marketplaces, the parks and […]

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Indian tourists at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a church in the Church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City. According to traditions dating back to the 4th century, it contains the two holiest sites in Christianity. Sisters praying in the site where Jesus was crucified at a place known as Calvary and […]

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Lunchtime at the wall of Old City brings us to Jerusalem suburbia: Ein Rafa, a village west of Jerusalem that was founded in the 1940’s. In a co-existence project in Ein Rafa, children and teachers from the local school meet with Jewish children for joint activities in which they share food and games and become […]

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A model of magnificent Masada, an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Herod the Great built two palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada. A mile up, marvelous […]

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Proof of the Romans’ ramp to ascend Masada, Trojan Horse style, with arms, battering rams, etc., the ramp was built after two to three months of the siege. It allowed the Romans to breach the wall of the fortress. According to Josephus, when Roman troops entered the fortress, they discovered that its defenders had set […]

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Jerusalem skyline, Shabbat sunset, and a real honor to schmooze with distinguished Israeli Professor Monty Penkower via NYC, Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem), the prize-winning author of many books on the Holocaust, on American Jewry, and on the rise of the State of Israel in […]