The Second Temple was destroyed in the first century, and the pilgrimage to the gates resumed only in the eighth or ninth century, when Jews from Egypt and Babylonia would come to Israel for the ...

This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims (Jewish and non-Jewish ...

Jews around the world are marking the start of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, which celebrates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. after it was defiled ...