The main religious institution was the Jerusalem temple, and temple worship went back many centuries in Jewish and Israelite history ... and all the other elements of ancient, Biblical worship. There ...

Archaeologists believe they’ve fully excavated eight rooms carved from stone, which were used for ritual practices during the eighth century B.C. Evidence shows that the use of the rooms was ...

Jews are commanded to hear the Torah recited by the king at the Temple. What happens when neither of those exists? (JTA) — Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century ...

Yet I never expected to find a similar prayer formula in an ancient Jewish context halfway across the world. While the Temple ...

A rare 1,700-year-old lamp with Jewish ... the ancient lamp, linking it to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. "This unique oil lamp, which in an exciting manner bears the symbols of the Temple ...

Archaeologists have discovered a religious shrine in the ancient heart of Jerusalem ... Hezekiah sought to centralise worship at the temple in Jerusalem, abolishing the ritual sites scattered ...

It retold one of the most well-worn ancient Jewish narratives, 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 ...

Four times for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the holiest places in the Jewish ... worship freely at the Western Wall, the only remnant of the ...