[Avodah] Which way to Jerusalem?

[Simon Montagu]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Liron Kopinsky <liron.kopinsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> "East" from anywhere:
>
> http://www.kosherjava.com/maps/zmanim.html?lat=61.270232790000605&lng=-149.94140625&zoom=4
>
>
Thanks to RLK and RZS for linking to this site.
http://www.kosherjava.com/zmanim-project/bearing-to-yerushalayim-and-zmanim-map/has
more background information and links which I won't have time to read
be`iun before the hag, including one article here at aishdas:
http://www.aishdas.org/articles/mizrach.htm. Apparently it's a mahloket
aharonim whether we use rhumb lines or great circles. I'm still curious to
know what Jews in Alaska do lema'ase.
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