Today marks 4 years since the passing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Wiesel died on 2 July 2016 at the age of 87. Wiesel was 15 when the Nazis deported him, along with his family, from their home in Transylvania to Auschwitz. Losing both his parents and younger sister in the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel made it his lifelong goal to teach the world about the Holocaust. The prize-winning author captured in his writings the vibrant Jewish world that existed before the

When Jerusalem was invaded by the Babylonians in 587 BC, the temple was stripped bare. The Babylonians kept detailed records of everything they carried off to Babylon. Gold. Vessels. Sacred objects. But one thing is missing from those lists. The Ark of the Covenant. According to Bezalel Porton and other scholars, there is no credible scenario in which those loyal to the traditional religion would have allowed the Ark to remain near pagan relics. Which leaves a serious historical problem. If it w