Western Wall

Western Wall Twitter Service Lets Jews Tweet A Prayer To God

AP | STEVE WEIZMAN | Posted 08.23.2009 | World


JERUSALEM — For centuries, people have stuffed prayers written on scraps of paper into the ancient cracks in the Western Wall in the Old City of...

Jerusalem Quarry Discovered Linked To Building Of Second Temple

Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2009 | World


An ancient quarry has been uncovered by construction crews in Jerusalem that, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority, can be traced back 2,300 ...

Passover Memories in Jerusalem

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.15.2009 | World


Ilana Teitelbaum

A holiday time seems to capture memories in a more powerful way than any other time of the year, and gives more significance to holidays as time goes on than they would otherwise have.

Account From The Set Of "Jerusalem: Center Of The World"

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.01.2009 | World


Ray Suarez

I have always been interested in those places where the membrane between the seen and the unseen is thin -- where human beings feel able to touch the eternal.

Western Wall Beggars Preyed On By Crime Ring

McClatchy blog: Checkpoint Jerusalem | Posted 01.10.2009 | World


Is nothing sacred? Israeli police say they have busted a crime ring that preyed on beggars at the Western Wall. According to an article in Maari...