The events in Shushan were never merely about the Jews of Persia. Just a few years before Esther’s miraculous rise, we had ...

The destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE is still one of the most important and contested events in ancient history. The Roman armies commanded by General Titus burned down the Temple ...

The view that the Temple vessels, or keylim ... behind the university’s exhibition The Arch of Titus — from Jerusalem to Rome, and Back. The prevalence of the myth among Jews “increased ...

Woe to you, O Jerusalem—and woe to the historian who writes about your fall to the Romans! The enterprise, undertaken by Guy MacLean Rogers, is woeful because our knowledge of the great Jewish revolt ...

we should always remember that there is only one Temple and that's the one Temple in Jerusalem. The building itself was very small. The actual building of the Temple could fit inside the infield ...

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in a wary climate stirred by a standoff over the Gaza ceasefire and an ...

The scrolls also tell us much about Judaism at the time the Temple still stood in Jerusalem and about the roots of Rabbinic Judaism, the direct ancestor of all major Jewish denominations today ...

(JTA) — A 2700-year-old toilet from the days of the First Temple in Jerusalem has been discovered by Israel’s Antiquities Authority. Built as a private toilet stall at a time when few could ...

JERUSALEM — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al Aqsa ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...