To jettison it would cause lasting damage.

A model for compromise on religious issues.

“I put them on, even though I don’t fully understand why.”

Jews and Muslims, tolerance and intolerance.

Reviled by Jews and Christians alike, Herod was one of the world’s great builders.

Archaeologists have long believed that a pile of large stones at the base of the Western Wall is a product of the Roman destruction of. . .

Some of the mammoth limestone rocks at Judaism’s holiest site are decaying, while others are good as new. Archeologists blame cost-cutting builders.

The “Sharansky” plan for a non-Orthodox worship section at the Western Wall deserves the support of both Israelis and Diaspora Jews.

The first known photographs of Jerusalem, taken when Ottoman Turks ruled the city, show a Temple Mount and Western Wall in disrepair and surrounded by rubble.

How can Jewish liberals defend the Women of the Wall when they don’t believe Jews should have the right to pray in “occupied” eastern. . .

One need not envision the reconstruction of the Temple, or even wish to pray where it once stood, to believe that the Jewish people ought. . .

Why it would be wrong to abandon Natan Sharansky's ambitious compromise proposal for the most sacred site in the Jewish world.

The women’s prayer protests at Jerusalem’s Western Wall have nothing to do with religious freedom, or any sane kind of feminism, or rational political protest.. . .

The Palestinian Authority vehemently opposes Israel’s opening a new “egalitarian” prayer space; no less vehemently, many American Jews support it. For the latter, this could. . .