Temple Mount

...Service 21 November 2009, 05:21am IST Topics: At the heart of the contested city of Jerusalem , the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif , or Noble Sanctuary, has become, for many, the epicenter...

In this article: Jerusalem, Islam, Israel, Waqf, Archaeology, and Aesthetics

...with the laws of Maimonides, you are committing a desecration of God's name and polluting the holiness of the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount which is supposed to be a source of the light of Judaism to the nations of the world, has become a...

In this article: Israel, God, Maimonides, Judaism, Western Wall, Rosh Hashanah, National Synagogue, and Ohev Sholom

...the Six Day War Israel captured the eastern half of the city from Jordan, giving Jews access to the western retaining wall of the Temple Mount, the site of the first and second Jewish temples and regarded as the holiest site in...

In this article: Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Ehud Olmert, East Jerusalem, Barack Obama, and Judaism

...Times POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 15, 2009 JERUSALEM -- At the heart of this contested city, the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, has become, for many, the epicenter of the...

In this article: Jerusalem, Al-Quds University, Islam, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sari Nusseibeh, and Israel

...high on an embankment that overlooks the most contested religious site on Earth. Jews call it the Temple Mount, or Mount Moriah, and believe it to be the site of the Foundation Stone, the Holy of Holies from where God gathered the dust to...

In this article: Messiah, The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Islam, God, Muhammad, and Copper

In this article: Jerusalem, Israel, Archaeologists, Judaism, and Prophet Muhammad

...inside a glass case, some melted down to unrecognizable chunks of pockmarked and carbonized bronze from the flames that destroyed the Temple. "These really show us the impact of the destruction of Jerusalem in the first century," said...

In this article: Jerusalem, Israel, Archaeologists, Judaism, Prophet Muhammad, and Associated Press Writer

...bronze coin dated by Israeli archaeologists to 69 AD is part of an exhibition in Jerusalem of rare coins excavated at the foot the Temple Mount, found charred and burned from when the Romans razed the Jewish Temple nearly two thousand years...

In this article: Jerusalem, Israel, All rights reserved, Archaeologists, Judaism, Prophet Muhammad, and USA Today

...11, 2009. The Israel Antiquities Authority displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins excavated at the foot the Temple Mount, found charred and burned from when the Romans razed the Jewish Temple nearly two thousand...

In this article: Jerusalem, Israel, All rights reserved, Archaeologists, Judaism, and Prophet Muhammad

...Chief Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitz recently reiterated that Halacha prohibits Jews from "even touching the Temple Mount," much less entering it, based on laws of ritual purity. During the heightened tensions in the capital over Succot, Rabbi...

In this article: Jerusalem, Islamic Movement, Shimon Peres, Waqf, and Maimonides