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

Rock-hewn mikveh uncovered in Jerusalem excavations beneath a destruction layer provides evidence of the events surrounding ...

Reporting from Jerusalem — Clutching smuggled Torah scrolls, dozens of feminist activists approached the Western Wall, wrapping themselves in colorful prayer shawls and chanting passages from the ...

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

Monday (Nov. 22) by the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Information. The document, which was written by Al-Mutawakei Tahad, a senior ministry official and respected writer, states that the Wall -- ...

President Trump may be getting his first monument. Israel’s transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem’s Old City, passing near sites holy to Jews, ...

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 ...

The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall or the Kotel, is the most significant historic site for the Jewish faith. This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King Herod's ...

"Today we have a ceremony that we take out the notes from the western wall, and bury them in 'mount of olives', this year we have more notes because of the war, because of the hostages, so people send ...

Nearly a thousand Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem prayed for a cure to combat the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 1,770 people. “Millions and millions of people are going through tremendous ...

Confused by the provisions of the Western Wall compromise? Here are three maps that show what will happen. The Western Wall compromise passed Sunday by Israel’s Cabinet represents a landmark ...

Reporting from Tel Aviv — When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted to renege on a compromise plan for a plaza where women and men could pray together at the Western Wall, the decision ...