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It is a fitting benediction to end the festival of Simchat Torah and Sukkot, in which three times we are commanded to rejoice.

An all-access 90-minute documentary film produced by America’s former top diplomats and TBN debuts in over 1,000 theaters across the U.S. on September 18 and 19.

Pilgrimages to the Temple Mount were a central aspect of Sukkot in biblical times. Discoveries along the pilgrimage road in Jerusalem’s City of David shed light on this oft-forgotten custom

Recently in Jerusalem a young girl volunteer discovered a rare silver Second Temple coin apparently issued by a rebel priest in the fight against the Romans.

Redesigning the City of David for Defense After Jerusalem became the Roman colony of Aelia Capitolina in 136 AD, the building in which the lamp was discovered was abandoned as it lay on the old Pilgrimage Road along which ancient Jews walked to the Temple Mount three times a year to worship on Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot. The archaeologists say that this famous historic street was built and inaugurated during the period of Governor Pontius Pilates around the year 30 AD and that it was used fo...

Dec 10, 2020 Just in time for Chanukah! A City of David archaeologist has discovered an intact oil lamp from the Second Temple period. City of David archaeologist Rikki Zalut Zalut Har-Tuv recently discovered an intact, complete oil lamp dating back to the Second Temple period – from the 1st or 2nd century BCE, between the Hasmonean and Roman periods. The lamp was found on the Old City of Jerusalem’s Pilgrimage Road, which goes from the Shiloah Pool to the area adjacent to the Western Wall...