At the " Wailing Wall " in the Old City of Jerusalem, " the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.

The western retaining wall of the original temple, known as the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall remains in the Old City of Jerusalem and this has been the most sacred site for religious Jews.

In 2003, on notification by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, about 500 Christians, Muslims, Jews and other international and interfaith tourists joined the Unification Church Middle East Peace Initiative " to such a degree that the Old Gates were opened by the Israeli police near the Wailing Wall, and by the Muslim leadership at Al Aqsa, without incident ", as the official UN-report says.

Muslim worshippers, after prayers on the esplanade of the Haram, passed through the narrow lane by the Wailing Wall and ripped up prayer books, and kotel notes ( wall petitions ), without harming however three Jews present.

The disturbances of at the Wailing wall in 1928 were repeated in 1929, however the violence in the riots that followed, that left 116 Palestinian Arabs, 133 Jews dead and 339 wounded, were surprising in their intensity and was the first instance that indigenous Sephardi and Mizrahi had been killed.

* In playing the part that he took in the formation of societies for the defence of the Moslem Holy Places and in fostering the activities of such societies when formed, the Mufti was influenced by the twofold desire to confront the Jews and to mobilise Moslem opinion on the issue of the Wailing Wall.

Houses in the quarter were only four meters away from the sacred Western Wall ( also known as the " Wailing Wall "), a remnant of the Second Temple plaza and an important place of pilgrimage for Jews.

On July 22, 2010, a " Statement of Principles on the Place of Jews with a Homosexual Orientation in Our Community " was released.

Category: Place names associated with Jews

Category: Place names associated with Jews

Category: Place names associated with Jews

Category: Place names associated with Jews

Most Orthodox Jews today completely avoid climbing up to Temple Mount, to prevent them from accidentally stepping on the Most Holy Place or any sanctified areas.

Similar appeals to prejudice were made in 1673, when Jews, for meeting in Duke's Place for a religious service, were indicted on a charge of rioting, and in 1685, when thirty-seven were arrested on the Royal Exchange ; but the proceedings in both cases were put a stop to by direction of the Privy Council.

Among his screen appearances were Picnic, Anatomy of a Murder, and as the watch-maker who hides Jews during WWII in The Hiding Place ( film ).

In the Middle Ages the fortress was known as Qırq Yer ( Place of Forty ) and as Karaites to which sect the greater part of its inhabitants belong, Sela ' ha-Yehudim ( The Rock of the Jews ).

Category: Place names associated with Jews

Category: Place names associated with Jews

His poem, ' My Homeland Egypt, Place of my Birth ', expresses loyalty to Egypt, while his book, al-Qudsiyyat ( Jerusalemica, 1923 ), defends the right of the Jews to a State.

Category: Place names associated with Jews

If anti-Semitism was on trial in Jerusalem, why was it not identified, and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press, in its connection with the activities of Eichmann's Department of Jewish Affairs, as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non-police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany, as well as in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary??

The Samaritans of Samaria ( see map at Iudaea Province ), had their temple on Mount Gerizim, and along with some other differences, see Samaritanism, were in conflict with Jews of Judea and Galilee and other regions who had their Temple in Jerusalem and practiced Judaism.

The Jews awaited with hope, but then after Hadrian visited Jerusalem, he decided to rebuild the city as a Roman colony which would be inhabited by his legionnaires.

The detachment at Jerusalem, which apparently encamped all over the city ’ s western hill, was responsible for preventing Jews from returning to the city.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

Ezra is informed that some of the Jews already in Jerusalem have married non-Jewish women.

Nehemiah and the Jews ( including the ' High Priest ' Eliashib ), begin rebuilding Jerusalem.

The enemies of the Jews-Sanballat of Samaria, Tobiah the Ammonite, Geshem the Arab, and the men of Ashdod-plot to attack Jerusalem which necessitates the Jews working with weapons in their hands.

Jerusalem is repopulated by the Jews living in the towns and villages of Judah and Benjamin.

The Jews, or at least some of them, returned to Jerusalem, and by 515 BCE had rebuilt the Temple.

A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests.

The vision then embraces the fall of Jerusalem to the hands of foreign invaders and God ’ s anger against Edom for taking advantage of the Jews of Judah during their plight, thus sealing their doom.

In June 2009, the US National Public Radio ( NPR ), relying on information obtained from the CIA World Factbook, put the number of Israeli Jews living in settlements in the West Bank and Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem at 250, 000.

Because of the Jews ' rejection of Jesus, Jewish sovereignty over the promised earthly kingdom of Jerusalem and Palestine was postponed from the time of Christ's first coming until prior to or just after his Second Coming when most or all Jews will embrace him.

After an 18 month siege Jerusalem was captured in 587 BC, thousands of Jews were deported to Babylon and Solomon's Temple was razed to the ground.

On Hanukkah, the Jews regained control of Jerusalem and rededicated the Temple.

But Jerusalem represents the creation or the Creator whom the Jews worship.

Chapter 5 deals with a visit to Jerusalem, and chapter 7 opens with Jesus again in Galilee since " he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him " — a consequence of the incident in Jerusalem described in chapter 5.

In his Jerusalem speeches, John's Jesus makes unfavorable references to the Jews.

Originally the Babylonian calendar was used by Jews for all daily purposes, but following the conquest of Jerusalem by Pompey in 63 BCE ( see also Iudaea province ), Jews began additionally following the imperial civil calendar, which was decreed in 45 BCE, for civic matters such as the payment of taxes and dealings with government officials.

The Pan-German League, founded in 1891, originally allowed for the membership of Jews, provided they were fully assimilated into German culture.

Woodbine was founded in 1891 as a settlement for Eastern European Jews.

* Rabbi Aharon Kotler ( 1891 – 1962 ), founder of the Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva and a pre-eminent authority on Torah in the 20th Century among Haredi Jews.

Most Jews were expelled from Moscow in 1891 ( except few deemed useful ) and a newly built synagogue was closed by the city's authorities headed by the Tsar's brother.

In some periods, special dispensations were given for Jews to live in the major imperial cities, but these were tenuous, and several thousand Jews were expelled to the Pale from Saint Petersburg and Moscow as late as 1891.

In 1891 he lobbied President Benjamin Harrison for the restoration of the Jews, in a petition signed by over 400 prominent Americans, that became known as the Blackstone Memorial.

In 1891, the leading Muslims in Jerusalem asked the Ottoman authorities in Constantinople to prohibit the entry of Jews arriving from Russia.

There were serious attacks on the Jews in 1891, when one of the synagogues was burnt down.

The agitation in the anti-Semitic press, as well as at anti-semitic meetings, where it was insinuated that the Jews had bribed or intimidated the authorities in order to prevent the discovery of the truth, compelled the government to arrest Buschoff and his family ( 14 October 1891 ).

* Jewish Colonization Association, created in 1891 to facilitate the mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries

In the spring of 1891, most Jews were deported from Moscow ( except a few deemed useful ) and a newly built synagogue was closed by the city's authorities headed by governor-general Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the tsar's brother.

In 1891 there were 1, 432 Jews living in Borșa.

Good examples include Parting at Morning ( 1891 ), Mother and Child ( 1903 ) and Jews Mourning at a Synagogue ( 1907 )-all of which are owned by the Tate Gallery.

*" A Royal Proclamation ; Asked for on Behalf of Homeless and Destitute Russian Jews " ( From the Ottawa Free Press, January 10, 1891 )

Trachtenberg always took an active interest in the affairs of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg, and in 1891 devoted much time and energy to the case of the Starodub Jews, who were victims of the anti-Jewish riots.

By energetic work he succeeded, in 1891, in reaching an agreement with large owners in the Emek Jezreel and the Plain of Acco for the purchase of 160, 000 dunams km² at 15 francs per dunam franc / km² .... Before the consummation of the agreement, however the Turkish Government, alarmed by the increasing inflow of Russian Jews, prohibited Jewish immigration entirely.

The Blackstone Memorial of 1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian Restorationist, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews.

He then helped settle Eastern European Jewish refugees who worked on various farms in the area and, in 1891, he became the director of the International Society for the Colonization of Russian Jews.