Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Record number of Jews visit the Temple Mount

At least 51,672 have made the ascent since last Rosh Hashanah, a 14% rise over the previous year.

History | Archeology

Archaeology is a big problem for the Palestinian cause 

The stone seal that was just discovered doesn’t refer to any indigenous Palestinian holidays, nor does it bear any ancient Palestinian symbols—because none of those things exist.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Spiritual Space - Chassidic Masters

The deeper meaning behind the different opinions in the Talmud and commentaries regarding the menorah’s spatial alignment inside the Temple, and regarding the identity of its miraculous “western lamp.”

News | Israel News

There is no ‘status quo’ on the Temple Mount

Unlike many others who fear backlash from Muslim countries, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and many other Israeli Jews, believe the time has come to assert full sovereignty over the Temple Mount.

History | History

Biden admin demands Jews stop praying at site of Temple - Israel365 News

The Biden administration is committing to maintain an apartheid Islamic status quo that bans Jews from praying at their holiest state. And it doesn’t have the guts to say so clearly.

Jews should “Stop praying at mount Moriah” according to Biden adm? They have not even started yet.

News | Interesting Stories

WATCH: Jews Sing to God on Temple Mount During Tisha B’Av | United with Israel

The Temple Mount is considered the holiest site in Judaism, believed to be the location of the ancient Temples.

News | The Temple Mount

Ben-Gvir visits Temple Mount during priestly blessing ceremony

Tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers participated in the semi-annual Birkat Kohanim at the Western Wall.

This is how it’s done.

History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - More photos of weeds on the Temple Mount, 1872

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History | Archeology

Rare First Temple clay seal unearthed in Jerusalem

  A rare and exciting archaeological find has been unearthed in Jerusalem, providing a unique glimpse into the ancient past.

I love that it’s going on display in the mayor of Jerusalem’s office before continued scientific analysis.

News | The Temple Mount

Elder Of Ziyon - What happened last year on the Temple Mount in Ramadan, and why restrictions on Muslims are necessary for peace this year

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News | The UN

The UN Counts Jews Visiting the Temple Mount as ‘Settler Violence’

It turns out that many Arab-on-Jew attacks were recorded by the UN as “settler violence.”

News | News

UNPACKED: Watch – Who Owns The Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa?

UNPACKED: Watch – Who Owns The Temple Mount / Al-Aqsa? Sacred and significant to Jews and Palestinians alike, the Temple Mount has a long and tumultuous history, serving today as a focal point and symbol of the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. F

News | The Temple Mount

Elder Of Ziyon - Muslims quoting Quran to predict Israel's demise - but meanwhile they prove the Jewish claim to the Temple Mount!

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News | The UN

Elder Of Ziyon - The UN's selective reporting on the Temple Mount and Old City

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News | The Temple Mount

Muslims Irate after Jews Blow Shofar on Temple Mount on Rosh Hashanah

All of which stands to show you that the Arabs already know the Jews are coming. Now, someone must tell the Jews.

Any Jew who blows a shofar on the Temple Mount, on Rosh HsShanah, is a hero.

News | The Temple Mount

Elder Of Ziyon - What is the Waqf doing on the Temple Mount? The Israel Antiquities Authority says it is "classified.”

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The Israeli government can’t protect Jewish lives or Jewish history. They are pathetic.

Politics | Media Bias

National Geographic Deprecates Jewish Theology and Ignores Archeological Fact

The article does not ignore Jewish claims to the Temple Mount, but it subtly denies their credence while privileging Muslim theology.

News | The Temple Mount

Elder Of Ziyon - So is it US policy that some Jews must be banned from the Temple Mount?

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News | The Temple Mount

Ben Gvir Ascends Temple Mount on 9 B’Av to Show Who’s in Charge

“It is not a crime to pray, bow, or bring religious texts to our sacred site.”

Hero. The left and all of the other enemies of the Jewish people, will whine incessantly about this, because they hate Jews doing Jewish things, on Jewish holidays, at Judaism’s most sacred site.

News | The Temple Mount

Video of Jews performing Priestly Blessing on Temple Mount sparks Palestinian outrage

While Jewish prayer has been conducted quietly on the Temple Mount since 2019, the video showed relatively public prayer.

If the Arabs can’t stand Jews doing Jewish thing at Judaism’s holiest site, where the Jewish presence predates Islam by over 2,000 years, it’s too bad.

News | The Temple Mount

Ehud Barak agreed to give up part of Temple Mount, Old City

The then-prime minister offered the concessions in 2000, Israel State Archives reveal.

Liberals are insane. Jews should not give up a single millimeter of the Temple Mount. No wonder the labor party died in Israel. This kind of self-destructive thinking has cost thousands of lives.

News | The Temple Mount

Abbas’ risible Temple denial Is no laughing matter

The specious claim that the Temple Mount is exclusively a Muslim holy site and the spurious denial that the Jewish Temple stood there is yet another example of Jew-hatred by the PA and Hamas. Op-ed.

News | The Temple Mount

Will Israel Retake the Temple Mount? | Jerusalem Day Special

Purchase the “75 Hebrew Words You Should Know” book here: https://cutt.ly/W6uq8UG\Watch the moment when one of the Israeli soldiers who fought for Jerusalem ...

B”H one day soon we will control the entire thing.

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - Palestinian preacher at Al Aqsa: "Palestinians Have No Historical Right to Palestine"

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News | The Temple Mount

Elder Of Ziyon - Palestinians claim Israel will open a synagogue on the Temple Mount "Bab al Rahma" hall. (I wish!)

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They really need to build a synagogue here.

News | The Temple Mount

Elder Of Ziyon - Jordan's Foreign Ministry reiterates that the Temple Mount - and the Kotel - must be Judenrein

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News | News

Israel on the Brink: Rockets Fired From Gaza and Lebanon, Riots on Temple Mount & Israeli Sisters Murdered in Terror Attack

As Passover celebrations began in the Holy Land, a crisis was brewing as Palestinian leaders encouraged rioting on the Temple Mount under the pretense of

The animals who murdered those two innocent girls and injured mother are typical of the Palestinian death obsession. I wish Israel was courageous enough to WIPE OUT every enemy of the Jewish people.

News | News

Palestinians Chant in Support of Hamas at Temple Mount

i24 News - Palestinian worshippers chanted slogans in praise of "martyrs" and in support of Hamas chief Mohammad Deif at the end of morning prayers on Friday at Jerusalem's Temple Mount. A video circulating on social media showed an imam calling on the cr

Because they’re a bunch of animals. There is no other explanation. These people love violence.

Politics | "Apartheid" State?

Elder Of Ziyon - More Muslims visit Al Aqsa under Israeli rule - EVERY WEEK - than EVER did under 1000 years of Muslim rule

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Politics | Media Bias

Elder Of Ziyon - The .@NYTimes is whitewashing Muslim desecrations on the Temple Mount

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History | History

Elder Of Ziyon - According to Arab interpretations of international law in 1930, Jews have the sole right to the Temple Mount today!

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Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Intifada Intel: What the IDF Knew in July 2000 (Judean Rose)

In which the common myth that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount provoked the Second Intifada, is busted

News | News

‘Israel is an independent country’: Ben-Gvir vows to return to Temple Mount

The statement comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jordan's king he would uphold the status quo in Jerusalem.

GOOD!

News | News

Police arrest two Jewish activists for waving Israeli flags atop Temple Mount

During 2022, 51,483 Jews visited the Jerusalem site, up from 34,651 in 2021 and 20,684 in 2020.

They are HEROES, period. How is Israel a “democracy” or a “Jewish state,” if Jews can’t pray, wave Israel’s flag, or sung its national anthem at the holiest place on earth to Jews???

Politics | Opinion

Moshe Dayan’s Tragic Blunder - Meir Y. Soloveichik

Whenever Israel’s Temple Mount is in the news, one is reminded of the old joke in which two Americans, touring England, pay a visit to Runnymede. “It was

Politics | Media Bias

Time Contributor Gaslights HonestReporting After Claiming Ben-Gvir 'Visited Al-Aqsa Mosque'

In a hyperbolic opinion piece for Time Magazine, titled "Israeli Democracy May Not Survive Netanyahu's New Government," Brooklyn-based Haaretz contributor

Politics | Debunking Lies

“Temple Mount Crisis” Awash with Misinformation

In the Middle East, the culture and language of power, honor, self-confidence, and resilience are concepts that Israel's adversaries and new regional allies understand. - “Temple Mount Crisis” Awash with Misinformation

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

'Unacceptable': Biden Administration Opposes Jewish Prayer at Jerusalem Holy Site

The Biden administration says it would be "unacceptable" for Israel to end the restriction on Jewish prayer at the Temple Mount and it would oppose any effort to disrupt the "historic status quo" that only allows Muslims to pray at the site. The stance is

I hate Biden. WHO does he think he is to have ANY opinion about prayer at Judaism’s holiest site? He will do anything to oppose the antisemites in his party.

Politics | Media Bias

CAMERA Op-Ed: The Washington Post Rewrites History on the Temple Mount and Terrorism

“Those who don’t learn history,” the philosopher George Santayana famously warned, “are doomed to repeat it.” But as CAMERA tells the Algemeiner, those who

Politics | Opinion

Jews are the owners of the Temple Mount

No other nation shares this history, no other nation has had the same capital for 3,000 years and has never had another one, and Jerusalem was never the capital of any other nation.

News | News

Steve Kramer – Holier to Whom: the Temple Mount

Steve Kramer – Holier to Whom: the Temple Mount   On January 3, Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir took a 13-minute walk in Jerusalem’s Old City on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s most holy site. Much of the “world” set its hair on fire and

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

Biden Fails to Defend Israel at U.N. Security Council over Temple Mount Visit

The Biden administration declined to defend Israel at a UN Security Council meeting on a Jewish minister visiting the holiest site in Judaism.

Politics | Debunking Lies

Elder Of Ziyon - What really is the Temple Mount "status quo?" According to Arabs, whatever they claim it is

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Politics | Debunking Lies

Elder Of Ziyon - Ben-Gvir's visit to the Temple Mount is the definition of fake news - because nothing happened, but the players WANT drama

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History | History

The Temple Mount: Whose Is It?

Palestinian Arab terror groups charged that the Jewish presence on the Mount was improper, infringed upon Arab Muslim right, had to cease.

Politics | Media Bias

Reuters Corrects: Ancient Jewish Temples Were Located On Temple Mount | CAMERA

CAMERA prompts correction after Reuters qualified the historical fact that the Jewish temples were located on the Temple Mount as unverified, citing 'The site,

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - Another day, another threat of war if Jews are given equal rights

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News | News

Watch: Garbage truck dump trash at sacred site on Temple Mount

  Palestinian desecration of the Temple Mount continues, Temple Mount activists revealed Monday, shortly after Tisha B'Av. Follow Israel Hayom

We need to take the Temple Mount back from these animals.

Politics | Opinion

Shavuot, the Six-Day War and the Sorry ‘Status Quo’ on the Temple Mount

Palestinians shout slogans at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as …

Politics | Opinion

The 'Jews are defiling Al Aqsa' narrative is inciting antisemitism

While I visited the Temple Mount this week, I had one persistent thought: how can the mere presence of a Jew cause defilement?

Politics | Opinion

The Temple Mount: ‘These Stones Are Not Silent’ - Meir Y. Soloveichik

On May 6, 2022, Israel’s Independence Day, the Temple Mount was opened to Jews for the first time in 11 days. Jewish visitors, calmly and proudly walking

“In 1942, Menachem Begin arrived in British Mandate Palestine. At that time, only a narrow alley in front of the Western Wall was available for Jewish prayer, but even then certain rituals were banned. And at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, the British would arrest—and club—Jews who sought to sound the shofar or sing “Ha Tikvah.” To Begin this was intolerable.”

Politics | Opinion

We should restore the sounds of holiness to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

How much more will we allow this to happen before we wake up and change the music?

1000%!

History | History

Jerusalem's Supreme Muslim Council, Headed By Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, In 1925: The Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound's 'Identity With The Site Of Solomon's Temple Is Beyond Dispute'

The Haram Al-Sharif Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem, known to Christians and Jews as the Temple Mount, is a focal point of tensions between Israel and the Palestinians.

News | News

Israeli court upholds ban on Jewish prayer at Al Aqsa compound

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -An Israeli appeal court on Wednesday overruled a magistrate who had stirred Palestinian anger by questioning the legality of barring Jewish prayer at a contested Jerusalem shrine, as the United States warned its citizens over travel i

This ruling proves three things: 1. That the government of the modern state of Israel doesn’t truly see it as a “Jewish state” and 2. It is a lie that israel protects freedom of religion, because the only religion which isn’t fully protected is Judaism. 3. Leftism is a disease which infects everything it touches and the leftist judge made that obvious with this disgusting ruling.

Politics | Opinion

Israel's refusal to Jewish claims on Temple Mount encourages Islamists

It is the un-Jewish “status quo” that Jordan, with American backing and Israeli acquiescence, is seeking to force on us all.

Israel’s unbelievably weak stance on the Temple Mount began almost immediately after Jewish control of it was reasserted after the Six Day War. In allowing Arabs to control it, they created a situation in which 1. Israel utterly failed to really secure the promise of a “Jewish state.” It’s not Jewish if Jews aren’t safe when praying at the holiest place in our religion. It’s also increasingly unsafe at the second holiest place, the Western Wall, and the third, The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. 2. Arabs have made it exceedingly clear that they view all of Israel as Muslim, just as they view all of the Temple Mount, and The Western Wall as “Al Aqsa.” This is a problem that has only gotten worse over the last 55 years. Israel has a chance now, because of the recent Israeli Supreme Court decision allowing Jews to pray in the Temple Mount, to finally assert some level of Jewishness in the most Jewish place on planet earth. Will they be strong enough to do it? Based on the situation since 1967 - no. I love Israel, and I love Israelis, but the government has always been run by cowards.

History | History

The Temple Mount: The Astonishing Israeli Concession of 1967

In a triumphant moment, Israel’s flag was hoisted over the newly conquered Temple Mount—then quickly taken down.

Moshe Dayan thought he was preventing bloodshed, and I am sure foremost on his mind was preventing Jewish bloodshed. But he made a mistake. You never surrender and inch of land to people who want to murder you. How much more so when you are talking about Judaism’s holiest place on earth? Ever since Israel relinquished control of the Temple Mount Arabs have used it as a propaganda tool. In fact their ability to do so has only expanded as they have conned large numbers of ignorant people into, against every bit of historical evidence, believing that Arabs in the region are a separate ethnic people called “Palestinian” who are the “real” indigenous people. Had the Israelis kept the Temple Mount, it would have sent the message to the world that ALL of Israel is Jewish, they aren’t afraid to proudly proclaim it, and that Arabs are welcome to live and pray anywhere in Israel, including the Dome of the Rock, ONLY if they accept the reality of the situation. Instead, now we have a “Jewish” state where Jews aren’t allowed to pray at the most revered place in our religion and in our history.

News | News

EoZ: How “human rights groups” covered (or didn’t cover) Friday’s Temple Mount riots

EoZ: How “human rights groups” covered (or didn’t cover) Friday’s Temple Mount riots h/t Elder of Ziyon According to Palestinian media, some 250 “civil service and human rights organizations’ signed a statement condemni

News | ISRAEL NEWS

Watch: Arabs pelt police with rocks on Temple Mount

After Jews were forbidden from ascending the mount due to fears of provocation, Arab rioters continued attacking police.

History | History

Ancient Muslim Texts Confirm the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem | Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Jerusalem Center researcher Nadav Shragai responds to modern-day Muslim and Palestinian fabrications about the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem with the

News | Israel

'People are awakening to the Temple Mount' - Inside Israel

Hundreds of Jews ascended the Temple Mount this morning on the occasion of the Tisha B'Av fast, when the people of Israel mourn the destruction of the First and Second Temples.

This is beautiful.

Miscellaneous | Religion & Spirituality

Foxes Seen at Temple Mount: Prophetic Proof Jerusalem Returning to Former Glory - Breaking Israel News | Latest News. Bi

Rabbi Akiva explained that the prophecy of Uriah related by the Prophet Micah had come to be was proof that the prophecy of Zechariah would also come to be.

Politics | Palestine

"Palestinian" Arab Muslims Attack Saudi Arabian Blogger on the Temple Mount for the Most Surprising Reason

Saudi Arabian blogger, Mohammed Saud, visited the Temple Mount for the first time in his life, as part of a special Arab media contingent.

This is a Muslim who gets it vs Muslims who are evil idiots! He loves Israel and those spitting at him are the "palestinian" Arabs who use terror and murder and cry to the world, never taking responsibility for their own actions!

History | Archeology

Netanyahu intervenes to save Temple Mount sifting project

Days after archaeological site said it would close for lack of cash, PM steps in, saying funding will continue

History | History

The Islamic claim to the Temple is very recent, since 1930

Jerusalem's role as "The Third Holiest Site in Islam" in mainstream Islamic writings does not precede the 1930s.