Caleb Nihira, owner and founder of NoFo Pizza & Cafe and North Fork Bread Co., has a big summer ahead of him as he navigates ...

The Greek National Opera opened this season’s festival with Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot as Athens’ ancient theater hosts its final festival season before it shuts down ...

On June 24 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of Agios Ioannis the Baptist and Forerunner.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday. The couple recited a ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

For instance, at almost exactly the time of the birth of Jesus (4-6 B.C.), some Jews became fed up with the Jewish King Herod ...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the Western Wall on Thursday afternoon, leaving a note with a quotation of a Bible verse taken from Numbers 23:24, “Look, a nation like a lioness will ...

Herod, at that time, was looking for a project in which to get involved. The previous year, he had finished rebuilding the central area of the Temple in Jerusalem, which had taken him 15 years.

A bronze coin dating to the Great Revolt against the Romans (A.D. 66-70) ... When the Romans destroyed Herod’s temple in A.D. 70, they knocked the retaining wall down piece by piece.

While Herod the Great built the Western Wall in Jerusalem, it was part of a massive platform supporting the Second Temple. This temple’s origins were thanks to Cyrus, too.

Louis Menand reviews “The Life of Herod the Great,” a previously unpublished novel by the author of “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” who was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance.