An album of everyday life in Jerusalem: Twelve double-spreads that describe daily life in Jerusalem during major periods of its history, beginning with the biblical patriarchs and ending today, have now been published in a book. Read more.
Thousands of Christians flocked to Jerusalem for Holy Week, the culmination of which was Easter Sunday. Read more.
Today, on the evening of the second day of his visit to Israel, U.S. President Barack Obama gave a speech in Jerusalem. The president spoke for a little under an hour, and touched on topics close to the hearts of Israelis: Peace with the Palestinians, Iran, Syria and the relationship with the U.S. Check out our word cloud (Courtesy of wordle.net) of the speech. The larger words are the ones that he repeated most. For example, Obama said the word Israel 82 times in his speech, but he only said the word Palestine twice. Read the full text of the speech here.
Israeli archaeologists believe they have discovered an ancient temple just five kilometers from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, that operated alongside Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.
The findings shed light about the days of the Israelite Monarchy and the ritual cult in the Holy Temple. Moreover, they raise questions regarding the status of the central Temple.
A photo of a snow-covered Tower of David in Jerusalem will represent Israel in the Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 international photography contest.
Photos of The Alonei Abba church in the Jezreel Valley, and Ma’aleh Akrabim road in the northern Negev came second and third in the run-up to the international competition. Read more.
Following the disappearance of women from billboards and ads on the sides of buses in Jerusalem, the exclusion of women from the public domain has reached a new level.
This time, the topic of discussion is a packet of Salit table salt that was bought in a non-ultra-Orthodox market in Jerusalem. The package typically features the familiar blue silhouette of a woman holding a pinch of salt but on this particular package, the woman was nowhere to be found. Read more.
To Jerusalem with love? Israeli officials, including President Shimon Peres, have been trying to lure Woody Allen to film in Israel.
Two weeks ago, The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles launched an Internet campaign to raise funds that would let Allen film in Israel. The initiative was born after Allen told The Wall Street Journal that he filmed his latest movies in Barcelona, London, Paris and Rome after he was offered funding by city officials. Read more.
A rare photograph taken from a German zeppelin has revealed an ancient Jerusalem mosque that was destroyed a few days after the Six-Day War.
The photograph revealed that the madrassa was located where the Western Wall Plaza is now. But the remains of the building were dismantled by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which did not realize its importance. Read more.
Hollywood actor David Arquette had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at age 41 at Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Monday.
According to a statement released by the office of Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Arquette was planning to attend a bar mitzvah ceremony at the wall for an Israeli youth, when it was disclosed that the Jewish actor never celebrated his own rite of passage.
Rabinovitch strapped the tefillin, or phylacteries, to Arquette’s tattooed left arm and placed the traditional strapped leather black box over his head. Arquette donned a traditional prayer shawl, or tallis, before being called to the Torah for his first ever “aliyah.” Read more.
