As part of her official visit to Israel, US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem visited and prayed at the Western Wall ...

The Boston Globe reported that by the end of November 1967, more than 400,000 members of the Jewish faith are estimated to have observed the commandment to wear Phylacteries (tefillin) at the city’s ...

The Wall has grown in significance because it is all that remains of the Temple and because Jews were (and still are) denied the right to pray on the Temple Mount. The Kotel became precious because it ...

Speaking at Sunday’s Jerusalem Post Gala event in New York, Moshe Lion, mayor of Jerusalem, said that the city of Jerusalem is rapidly building, growing, and creating. “More and more ...

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2025 in Jerusalem. (photo credit: SHAULI LENDNER) Speaking at the opening gala of the WJC’s 17th Plenary Assembly in Jerusalem, Sylvan Adams, the newly appointed World Jewish Congress Israel ...

After sparking religious backlash, the Israel Antiquities Authority agrees to rebury ancient Western Wall stones, affirming ...

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Some soldiers had never seen the Kotel before and did ... a testimony about the capture of Jerusalem shortly before his passing. He appears in the famous photo alongside Moshe Dayan and Yitzchak ...

In an amazing book entitled “A Stone Speaks: The Voice of the Kotel” authored by Israel Rubin, (Mosaica Press, 2014), we begin to truly understand and appreciate the rich history of Jerusalem ...

From the old stone quarters of Jerusalem to the hills of the Galilee, each image in this chapter grounds us in lived-in spaces carrying memory and meaning. Here, we see how people moved ...

Palestinian media publishes images purportedly showing a wagon used by Israeli special forces in a reported operation in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis this morning. The photos show what appears ...