My dear friend and his family came from Baltimore recently on a two-week tour of Israel in honor of his daughter’s bat mitzvah. On the last day of their trip, I drove to Jerusalem with my two younger ...

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is more than merely a point of contention. It has been a major flashpoint that has initiated major conflicts and mass killings of Muslims and Jews for decades: -Over a ...

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led prayers atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where he boasted Wednesday morning that Israel reigns victorious at the hilltop, two years after the October ...

JERUSALEM - Israel’s new right-wing National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir managed to upset the U.S., France, the Palestinians and Sunni Arab countries on Tuesday due to his 15-minute visit to the ...

Among the thousands of Jewish worshipers bustling throughout Jerusalem’s Old City last Wednesday morning to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot, many could be seen carrying large blue flags emblazoned ...

A small gold disc pulled from the soil just outside Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is reshaping how scholars picture Jewish life in the city more than a millennium ago. The rare 1,300-year-old menorah ...

In recent years, as increasing numbers of religious Jews have begun to visit the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit), backed by some prominent rabbinical figures in the Religious Zionist world, I encouraged my ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration said a visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, was “provocative” and cautioned against changes ...

“There is to be no ritual,” an Israeli police officer warned as thousands of Jews enacted a pilgrimage that has inflamed tensions before. JERUSALEM (JTA) – Sirens sounded near Jerusalem on Sunday as ...