Following the deportation of Jews to Babylonia between 597 BCE and 586 BCE, most of them lived outside the Land of Israel.

The history of the Temple Mount is one of perpetual friction. It was the site of Solomon’s first Temple, later destroyed by ...

about the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. To Zablocki, it could not have felt more urgent. That feeling has only intensified this year. “It was relevant before Oct. 7.

Liberation begins with God giving the Israelites control of their own time and inviting them to commemorate and sanctify ...

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Prominent Features of Rabbinic Judaism (as put in writing by the rabbis in the centuries after the destruction of the Second Temple) Prayer, the performance of God's commands (mitzvot), and the study ...

First, the tune started just as the Temple women’s basketball team began its jog from the tunnel. Uncanny. Second, it was an apt anthem for Rice. Then the No. 10 seed, the Owls upset Temple en route ...

This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims (Jewish and non-Jewish ...