Episode 110 Aelia Capitolina
Rome attempts to undo the Jewishness of the Jews’ holy city.
Supplemental Materials:
- Click here to see the upside down stone inscribed with Latin on the Temple Mount.
- Click here to see many of the different coins issued by the Romans while they occupied Jerusalem.
- Click here to read Menachem Begin’s speech, “We Were All Born in Jerusalem.”
- Click here to read Rabbi Soloveichik’s commentary on Begin’s speech.
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