By contrast, Levite sons are separately counted from infancy as they receive no inherited land and therefore are not required ...

The ‘half’ shekel answers: perfect Emunah obligates us to believe, despite these seeming difficulties, knowing that we only merit - in this world - to see ‘half the picture’.

A Continental dollar from 1776 sold for over $32,000 at an auction last week, after it was found in an old toffee tin. The coin was designed by Benjamin Franklin.

Tel Aviv [Israel], July 26 (ANI/TPS): A rare 2,000-year-old coin dating back to the Jewish Revolt against Rome was discovered in the Judean Desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on ...

A 2,000-year-old silver half-shekel bearing the Hebrew inscription “Holy Jerusalem” has been discovered in the Judean desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) A 2,000-year-old silver half-shekel bearing the Hebrew inscription “Holy Jerusalem” has been discovered in the Judean desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed ...

A 2,000-year-old silver half-shekel bearing the Hebrew inscription “Holy Jerusalem” has been discovered in the Judean desert, the Israel Antiquities Authority revealed on Tuesday.

A rare half-shekel coin dug up in the Ein Gedi nature reserve was inscribed with the words “The Holy Jerusalem” in Hebrew.

On this day, as you become bar mitzvah, we wish you the privilege to see the rebuilding of the Beis HaMikdash. Your half-shekel will join with the half-shekel of another Jew – with the half-shekels ...