Second Temple

Made from limestone to preserve ritual purity.

Gavriel Fiske
Feb. 23 2024 12:01AM

Emperor Julian’s unfulfilled promise.

Itzchak Tessler and Yonatan Moss
Aug. 3 2023 12:01AM

The Soul of the Mishnah.

Richard Hidary
Jan. 13 2023 12:01AM

And why the Dead Sea Scrolls are overrated.

Malka Simkovich
Dec. 29 2022 12:01AM

A talmudic legend of a wicked emperor’s demise, set to verse.

Aug. 12 2022 12:01AM

One of the 20th century’s greatest Jewish historians reflects on the Jewish predicament.

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Nov. 10 2021 12:01AM

Hordes of Jewish pilgrims came to Jerusalem and experienced the Temple’s “wow effect.”

Rossella Tercatin
Sept. 23 2021 12:01AM

Including a Second Temple-era synagogue.

Boaz Gross
June 1 2021 12:01AM

The sacred precinct on Mount Gerizim.

Leen Ritmeyer
Feb. 10 2021 12:01AM

Used by pilgrims on their way to the Temple.

Jonathan Laden
Jan. 19 2021 12:01AM

Rabbi Yoḥanan, COVID-19, and the Arab spring.

Aug. 6 2020 12:01AM

A video tour.

Amanda Borschel-Dan
July 31 2020 12:01AM

Why do Christian depictions of the Jewish Temple look like the Dome of the Rock, the 7th-century Muslim structure built on that site?

July 30 2020 12:58AM