Tombstone of Joel ben Ze’ev

The word of the Lord came to me: Now you, O mortal, intone a dirge over Tyre. Say to Tyre: O you who dwell at the gateway of the sea, Who trade with the peoples on many coastlands: Thus said the…

There is no city in the world which can bear comparison in point of interest with Jerusalem,—fallen, desolate, and abject even as it appears—changed as it has been…