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An exhibit at the Janice Charach Epstein Museum/Gallery creates a historic
reconstruction of the Temple Mount and other sacred places.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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t took 46 years and 150,000 people to
build the Temple Mount in ancient
Jerusalem, and it took the dedication of
two people over five years to develop a
model of that Temple Mount and four other
models of ages-ago structures for Jewish worship.
Benjamin. Adelman, chairman of the
American Friends of the Israel Exploration
Society based in Maryland, had the idea for the

made-to-sclle structures • and financed them.
Research led him to engage Dr. Leen Ritmeyer,
an archaeologist and Temple scholar in
England, to do the designs.
First shown at the Jewish Community
Center of Greater Washington, in Rockville,
Md., the replicas will be having their second
showing through Jan. 31 at the Janice Charach
Epstein Museum/Gallery in West Bloomfield.
The display, "The Mountain of the Lord,"
will have a permanent home at the new Jewish
Children's Museum being built in Brooklyn (see

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