Members of the a movement advocating for greater Jewish access to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem are upset about the removal of metal detectors outside entrances and the return of Muslim oversight to the complex — viewing the move as a betrayal on the part of Israeli leaders. “Bibi doesn’t have the heart to place…
Amidst protests and violent clashes in Jerusalem over access to the Temple Mount, a Jewish activist group has released a provocative video that depicts a computer-generated image of a rebuilt Jewish Temple looming over the site. The Temple Institute is a prominent organization in what is known as the Temple Mount movement, which is made…
Tensions are high in Jerusalem after a Palestinian attack left two Israeli police officers dead on the Holy Esplanade, the site known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount. For many, the attack and subsequent security lockdown are cause for alarm since protests over the sacred site at the…
A self-professed “Lost Tribe King” from Togo is promising to lead a mass pilgrimage to Jerusalem this fall. He says he will bring Jewish kings and queens from Africa: hundreds of them, who will “scream Shema Yisrael at the Western Wall,” Francois Ayi told the blog Israel Rising, referring to the central Jewish prayer that…
Comedian Roseanne Barr, star of the 1990s hit television show Roseanne, is arranging a special Passover visit with the Temple Institute, the Israeli organization that wants to rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem — and she’s very excited about it. In a public exchange on Twitter, the Temple Institute invited Barr to tour their facilities….
A Jerusalem group plans to open the first school of its kind to train priests to serve in a third Jewish temple, which they hope to see erected on Jerusalem’s most contested holy site. The Temple Institute’s priest training program is the group’s latest effort to prepare for and hasten the creation of a third…
A Togolese man, calling himself a king and descendant of an ancient Lost Tribe, has gained prominent Orthodox allies in Israel and even held a meeting with the Minister of Religious Affairs to request his people be recognized as a Lost Tribe of Israel. Francois A. Ayi, who describes himself as belonging to “one of…
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