— The Jewish Federations of North America board of trustees sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underscoring the “growing sense of urgency” on the part of American Jews to see ...

Notes placed into crevices between the ancient stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem were removed on Sunday ahead of the Jewish new year festival, Rosh Hashanah. The notes are cleared out twice a ...

Researchers say the mikveh likely served both local residents and the many pilgrims who visited the Temple in the years ...

Visitors in the Old City of Jerusalem hoping to spend time at the Western Wall—adjacent to Judaism’s most sacred site, the Temple Mount—must either descend 142 steps from the Jewish Quarter or take a ...

The ritual bath was found sealed beneath a layer of destruction dated to 70 CE, in which researchers found burned ash and ...

More than 50,000 people were at the Western Wall on Sunday morning in the Old City of Jerusalem to attend the tradition Birkat HaKohanim — the Priestly Blessing — recited by the descendants of the ...

Israeli police detained a woman wearing a tallit at the Western Wall and later questioned her for four hours. The woman was participating Thursday in a rosh chodesh prayer service held monthly at the ...

The “Birkat Cohanim,” or Cohen’s blessing, is a ritual dating back to over 2,500 years ago when King Solomon’s Temple stood on the same site. The blessing is performed by Jewish men who can trace ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Women seeking equal prayer rights at the Western Wall are planning a further challenge to Jewish Orthodox tradition at the site after a court ruling bolstered their cause, an ...

(JNS) Visitors in the Old City of Jerusalem hoping to spend time at the Western Wall—adjacent to Judaism’s most sacred site, the Temple Mount—must either descend 142 steps from the Jewish Quarter or ...