solid-gold Menorah. One widely shared theory among some Jews holds that the artifacts are hidden inside the Vatican, which many believe inherited the wealth of the Roman Empire.

Their “swimmers” consisted of a sample of platinum atoms covered in a salty solution, or adatoms, because they were sitting on mineral crystals. Once it was in the liquid graphene, the solid ...

Midrash Tanchuma questions the central motif of our Parsha – the Menorah. We take for granted that it was an integral part of the Mishkan and the Temple of Jerusalem. However the Midrash seems ...

But the absolute star of the show – the solid gold menorah taken as a trophy by the Romans when they destroyed the temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 AD, won’t be there. Its fate has been a ...