This huge marble gate, which dates to the 1st century C.E., shows Roman soldiers hauling off holy vessels from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, including the Menorah (which is today the official ...

The first Jewish revolt against the Romans started around A.D. 66 and saw the Roman sack of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70. The revolt continued until the Roman ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance. There had been upsets: Jews had been ...

complaining about the priests of the temple.... Nonetheless, it's clear among all the numerous groups within the Jewish community of the 1st century, that all of them, to justify themselves ...

Ben Batich, a 1st-century leader of the Jewish Zealots ... The film — about the intra-Jewish rifts that preceded the temple’s destruction — was acclaimed in Israel precisely because it ...

The paved prayer area is in front of the Wall, the last remnant of the second Jewish Temple's complex destroyed in the 1st century. The Western Wall Heritage Foundation, which runs the site ...