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French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.
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 ...
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.
The Temple Institute, with close ties to American evangelicals, moved into Jerusalem's Old City in 1992. In 1996, the Chief Rabbinate decided to authorize, and even encourage, Jewish prayer on the ...
A stone quarry dating from the Second Temple period, recently uncovered in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood, contains massive limestone slabs that were likely used in King Herod’s various ...
A rare and unique First Temple-era stone seal inscribed with a name in paleo-Hebrew script has been uncovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on August ...
Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple. When you purchase through links on our site ...
The Temple Mount refers to a flat plaza situated above the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, and it is considered a holy site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alike.
An extremely rare and unusual stone seal from the First Temple period, about 2,700 years old, bearing a name inscribed in paleo-Hebrew script and a winged figure, was discovered near the Southern ...
Jews pray daily for the rebuilding of Jerusalem and its crowning jewel, the Temple. Each year during the summer, Jews observe a three-week period of mourning, ...