According to the Bible, Nehemiah, both a prophet and political leader, was determined to restore Jerusalem as the Israelites' capital a century after its destruction by the Babylonians ...

The book of Nehemiah, near the close of the Hebrew Bible, is a tale of national rebirth that continues to resonate through the millennia. At its center is the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem ...

“The Many Faces of Nehemiah.” Born in Jerusalem, Persoff immigrated to New York with his family in 1929, when he was 10. While working odd jobs as a teenager to help support his family during ...

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When actor, painter and writer Nehemiah Persoff, at times dubbed “the last survivor of Hollywood’s golden age,” was a 3-year old growing up in Jerusalem, he fell in ...