The Mount of Olives lamp is one of the few material traces of a Jewish presence around Jerusalem in the third to fifth centuries C.E.," Chernin said. "The exquisite artistic workmanship of the ...

The Mount of Olives is one of the holiest places on the earth. It is first mentioned in the Bible over a thousand years before the birth of Christ, in the Second Book of Kings, where one finds ...

Despite ongoing tensions in Gaza thousands of Christian worshippers marched across the Mount of Olives on Palm Sunday.

The pilgrims waving palm fronds wound their way down from Bethphage — a Franciscan church located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem — down to the Monastery of the Ascension and downhill to ...

We view life differently. Whoever you are, wherever you came from, or look like — you are important. Whatever your faith ...

Polaris My stint as an amateur archaeologist began one morning on the southern slope of Mount Scopus, a hill on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem ... from the Mount of Olives to the east ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...