Titled “Menorah: Cult, History and Myth,” the ... century C.E. that experts believe may be a representation of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. It was excavated from an ancient synagogue ...

Both the menorah and the Temple’s showbread table, held to be a stand-in for the Ark of the Covenant, were “thought to be stored in the papal chapel, the Sanctum Sanctorum (‘Holy of Holies ...

To rededicate the Temple, they needed to burn oil in a candelabra, known in Hebrew as a menorah. They found a ... Using the shammash, we light two on the second night, three on the third night ...

When Sheila Dressner first walked through the doors to Temple Menorah-Keneseth Chai in Northeast Philadelphia in 1980, she was in the process of finding a synagogue for her and her family to join. On ...