No matter the level of damage, however, Jerusalem and its temple always get rebuilt, often becoming more elegant than it was before its destruction.

Two generations later, after a second major Jewish revolt (132-135 CE) in the land of Israel, the Romans rebuilt Jerusalem as a pagan city filled with idols, That stopped all Jews from coming to the ...

the temple in Jerusalem remained the spiritual center of their worship. The temple had been rebuilt three times. The first was when it had been destroyed in 587 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia.

JERUSALEM (RNS ... At every Jewish wedding a glass is broken because the temple was destroyed. Rebuilding the temple is not an idea from outer space.” Furthermore, Medad said, it is hypocritical ...

To survive a flood, you need an ark. That’s the theme of this year’s Jerusalem Design Week (JDW), which explores ...

Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, says that the Iranian people will overthrow the Islamic regime if the West can give them ...

Every year between Tisha B’av and Rosh Hashanah, we read the Seven Haftarot of Consolation from Isaiah 40-61. The first ...

structure in the center of Jerusalem which attracted pilgrims ... And this can be seen in the rebuilding of the Temple. If we move around the Temple complex, which we can still see standing ...

Some Jews and Christians believe they're key to rebuilding the Jewish temple that once stood in Jerusalem, and to beckoning the Messiah. To understand, you have to look back almost 2,000 years in ...

Psalm 137:1-4 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplars we hung our harps, for ...

Jerusalem was subsequently captured, and the Temple destroyed, by the Babylonians in the sixth century BC. Two generations later, the Jews rebuilt the Temple (the "Second Temple"). The city was ...