It is customary to eat dairy on Shavuot, and we are going to tell you why!

Ahead of Jerusalem Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Holy City in the 1967 Six Day War, here's a list that includes some of the lesser-known names used to refer to Israel's eternal capital. 

Towards the end of the Seder we move away from reliving the past and focus on the future. We express our deepest longing for the arrival of the Messianic era.

Although nowadays there is no Passover sacrifice, as there is no Holy Temple in Jerusalem, we can still learn from it.

It is little known that the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is alluded to in the Passover Haggadah, along with the lesson that it will be rebuilt when unity prevails.

The first thing done at the beginning of each day at the Holy Temple was cleaning of the ashes from the previous day. What is the lesson here?

Why is the performance of so many commandments necessary in order to help us remember the Exodus from Egypt?

No matter how far we stray, God, Torah, the Jewish people, and Jerusalem are all interconnected. It is a 'marriage' that can never be broken. 

Because Chanukah usually occurs in December, it is sometimes thought of as the "Jewish Christmas." It isn't, of course. But what's it's really all about?

The menorah engraving is a unique find dating back to the period between the Hasmonean era and the Bar-Kokhba revolt, when decorative use of this symbol was rare.

Every nation, Jewish or not, has a place with God and the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

Unlike Passover and Shavuot, Sukkot is not an exclusively Jewish festival. Rather, it is a holiday for the entire world to celebrate.

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman was among the 100,000 who attended the annual 'Birkat Kohanim' - Priestly Blessing - at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during Sukkot 2019.

The moving tunes used for the Yom Kippur prayers are a main priority in the service, arousing our souls to a higher level of spirituality.

The shofar, essentially a wake-up call, is sounded at least 30 times on Rosh Hashana. How much does it take to wake us up?

Researchers tracked the development of weapons used in the Holy Land and concluded that foreign hitmen were involved.

During the time that the Jews mourn the destruction of the Holy Temples in Jerusalem, Abbas ignores thousands of years of history.

Our rabbis tell us that whoever mourns over the destruction of the Temple will merit to see its rebuilding. May we live to see it in our days!

As we pray at the Western Wall and gaze up at the Temple Mount, we cannot help but wonder why there is no Holy Temple today. Does it have anything to do with the slanderous report of the spies in the times of Moses?

On Tisha b'Av we read the Book of Lamentations and we ask: Why did God ignore the prayers to save Jerusalem?

Tisha b’Av commemorates a great number of calamities in Jewish history, but we focus primarily on the destruction of Jerusalem and the two Holy Temples.

Not just the Jewish People, but all people who long for global peace and harmony should hope and pray for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

A young boy wakes up on the morning of Tisha b'Av and discovers the possibility of a better world, where peace and joy fill the streets of Jerusalem.

The message of the very first Tisha b’Av: Count your blessings and don’t cry over the small stuff!

Israeli archaeologists discovered a seal in Jerusalem that 'bears witness to the restoration of the City of David in the period of Ezra and Nehemiah.'