French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Tisha B’Av – Judaism’s holy day of mourning for the ancient destruction of the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem – was last Tuesday, and had special relevance for today’s ...

The second temple of Jerusalem, here in a model in the Israel museum, took the better part of a century to build and covered more than 870,000 square feet. The second temple of Jerusalem, here in ...

While the model of the Temple at the Israel Museum and the 3D Virtual Tour of the Temple offered at the Western Wall provide us with an idea of what Jerusalem looked like 2,000 years ago, let’s ...

Religious Jews arrive to pray at the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Aug. 2, 2021. Jewish prayers at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site ...

The Temple Mount is where both temples stood in Jerusalem before they were destroyed by invading armies. Israel’s new right-of-center coalition government entered office last week.

Israeli archaeologists say that ancient remains from the era of Solomon's Temple were discovered last month for the first time on the holiest site for Judaism, reigniting a historical and ...

Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is the holiest site in the world for Jews and the third holiest for Muslims — a place where millions of people have prayed for millennia. Yet, often, it is a launching ...

Large 10th century BCE worship complex being excavated at Motza in ancient Judah; 4 miles from Temple Mount, site was 'sanctioned' by Jerusalem administration, say archaeologists ...