Jerusalem Temple
Was King Herod the Great really so ‘great’? What history says about the bad guy of the Christmas story
By Aaron Gale — December 12, 2023
(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth.
How to celebrate an ancient victory in the midst of a war that’s not over
By Brad Hirschfield — December 7, 2023
(RNS) — One solution lies in perhaps the best-known part of the Hanukkah story — the miracle of the oil.
New book plumbs the role of the Herods in forming early Jewish, Christian views
By Yonat Shimron — August 17, 2021
(RNS) — In his book “The Herods: Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession,” Bruce Chilton, a professor of religion at Bard College, places the dynastic family that ruled Judea and Israel for the Romans front and center.
This year, American Jews are taking Hanukkah outside
By Yonat Shimron — December 9, 2020
(RNS) — Many American Jews have previously shied from overtly public menorah displays out of a sense of vulnerability, if not an outright fear of persecution. Not this year.
This Tisha B’Av, American Jews use the day of lament to cry out to God for Black lives
By Yonat Shimron — July 29, 2020
(RNS) — A group of Jews has been gathering daily at Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza to lament injustices against Black Americans. It will culminate Thursday (July 30), on Tisha B’Av, the Jewish day of mourning for the Jerusalem Temple.
Papyrus offers nonbiblical mention of Judean kingdom in Jerusalem
By Yonat Shimron — October 26, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) Plundered from a cave in the Judean Desert, the scroll provides evidence of the existence of an organized Judean kingdom in Jerusalem.
Erasing the Temple Mount’s Jewish claims only makes the conflict worse
By guest — October 19, 2016
(RNS) UNESCO member states, some of which successfully 'erased' Jews from their territories through physical extermination during the 20th century, are once again trying to do so with vitriolic rhetoric.
Met show celebrates Jerusalem as house of mirrors
By Yonat Shimron — September 26, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) The show’s true spectacle is aggregate: dozens of compelling objects and images interacting, fighting, influencing and being influenced by one another, engaging in what might be called “Jerusalem Fever.”
Job opening: High priests needed for ancient Temple ritual
By Michele Chabin — March 31, 2016
JERUSALEM (RNS) The Temple Institute is looking for a few good priests to perform animal sacrifices as in the days of yore.
Orthodox Jews to observe July 4th without music
By Menachem Wecker — July 1, 2013
(RNS) Many Orthodox Jews will silence their TVs and avoid live music performances on July Fourth to commemorate a three-week mourning period for the Jerusalem Temple.
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