Joseph Avis was a Quaker carpenter, joiner, and merchant tailor in the City of London in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He worked under the architects Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke on reconstruction projects in London following the Great Fire of 1666, including several churches, but is best known as the architect of the Bevis Marks Synagogue.
Joseph Barsky’s design for the Herzliya Gymnasium, established in 1905 as the first Hebrew high school in Palestine, was adapted from Charles Chipiez’s and Georges Perrot’s understanding of…
Hybrid creatures with six wings, Syria, 10th or 9th century BCE. Numerous hybrid creatures, often winged, that combined features of various animals, are known from ancient art. Another example is the…
The purpose of Agudat Israel is the solution of the respective tasks facing the Jewish collectivity, in the spirit of the Torah. In accordance with this purpose, it sets itself the following goals: (1…