Compass belonging to Independence War fighters found at battlefield
In the battle of the Lamed Heh, all 35 fighters who were on their way to help the besieged Gush Etzion were killed.
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In the battle of the Lamed Heh, all 35 fighters who were on their way to help the besieged Gush Etzion were killed.
(Courtesy of YU) A ground-breaking exhibit of extraordinary items, some never before displayed in public, including spectacular manuscripts in Maimonides’s own hand, make up “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” a new Yeshiva University Museum (YUM) exhibit, running May 9 to Dec. 31. Artifacts with a personal connection to this great Jewish luminary include a Mishneh Torah (code of law that revolutionized the study and practice of Judaism) signed and personally approved by Maimonides; a fragment from the Cairo Genizah with Maimonides’s signature and other fragments in h...