Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred ...

Consecrated in 1732, the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue is the oldest Jewish temple in continuous use in the Americas. Commonly called the Snoa (short for the old Portuguese word for synagogue ...

(JTA) — The Temple Mount is closed to Jewish visitors “until further notice,” the organization that coordinates visits by Jews said Saturday, after a fresh round of clashes between Israeli ...