Newly excavated extension of the Western Wall with inscriptions. (Photo by Geoffrey Clarfield). I first set foot in Jerusalem ...
No. Not that one lonely Samaritan, on a road two millennia ago. This is not about him, famous from the New Testament parable of The Good Samaritan who stops and helps a beaten traveler after two ...
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LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C.
(JTA) — In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted in southern Italy, burying the nearby Roman city of Pompeii in scalding stone and ash. The catastrophe famously entombed, and preserved, the city’s villas, ...
Under an ancient ordinance, every Jewish citizen of the town of Rotenburg, in Hessen, is under an obligation to make a gift of silver spoons each year to the local Catholic priest. For decades, the ...