“About half a million Jews visited the Western Wall over the week of Passover in 2025 but only 6,315 of them went further up to the Temple Mount,” said Kikar HaShabbat, an ultra-Orthodox news site, ...

The debate about the central meaning of Tisha b’Av goes back more than 1500 years to a debate between Rabbi Judah who said Ei’khah can only mean (learning from) prophetic reproof, and Rabbi Nehemiah ...

Israel is different from most countries in one important way.

New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty ...

A historic and prophetic shift has occurred on the Temple Mount, and it’s a development that carries immense biblical ...

Zohran Mamdani is defensive about his faith and has maintained that his culture is “not a costume.” Why then, New Yorkers ...

Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue.The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally ...

New Testament scholar N T Wright recently pushed back on the assumption that Jesus and the apostle Paul expected the world to ...

Even those who never plan to move to Israel benefit from its existence; knowing that a Jewish state exists provides psychological comfort.The post Diaspora Jewry has ‘somewhere to go’ appeared ...

According to he Netziv, If Jews live distinctive and apart from others they will dwell safely, but if they seek to emulate ‘the nations’ they ‘will not be reckoned’ as anything special at all.

The episode related in today’s gospel occurs in all three synoptics but there is one detail in Luke’s account that is unique to him. Having described how ...

Upon his return to London, Sir Moses was given a hero’s welcome, including a big ceremony and special synagogue services, and, when he met with Queen Victoria to present her with the firman, she hon ...