A Palestinian Terrorist Organization Is Participating in German Parliamentary Elections
Why doesn’t Germany ban the PFLP?
September 5, 2017
How the Western Wall Became a Place of Jewish Prayer
At the instigation of a 16th-century sultan.
Immediately following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Jews evidently continued to pray either on the Temple Mount itself,or on the adjacent Mount of Olives, from which they could look down on the ruins of the sanctuary. In later years, Jews in Jerusalem found a variety of places on or near the Mount to gather for prayer and mourning, but only in the 16th century did the Western Wall—one of the outer retaining walls built by King Herod during his 1st-century-BCE renovations of the Temple—become the city’s most important Jewish sanctuary. F.M. Loewenberg explains how that came to be:
September 5, 2017
In an Attempt at Compassion, the Israeli Supreme Court Has Thrown Immigration Policy into Chaos
Israel needs a coherent approach.
How the Western Wall Became a Place of Jewish Prayer
At the instigation of a 16th-century sultan.
On the Foolishness of Jewish Celebrities Wearing Yellow Stars
There are better ways than Nazi symbols for Jews to express their pride.
A Talmudic Scholar’s Appreciation of the American Constitution
Freedom over ideology.