On Tisha B’av, we think about this arch in the context of national tragedy. Seeing the arch at Hanukkah time provides a different perspective, where the focus of Titus’s menorah reminisces ...

This aspect of the Menorah on the Arch of Titus, truly the symbol of the Exile, was a very hot topic on 11 Shevat 5709 (1949), when a committee was formed to determine what the symbol of the new ...

The Arch of Titus project aims to discover and reconstruct the original colors of the arch, which famously depicts 10 Roman soldiers parading a seven-branched menorah and other Temple treasures ...

The Arch of Titus, built by Domitian in 81 C.E., is a triumphal Roman commemoration of the bloody victory of his father Vespasian and brother Titus over Judea and their burning of the Holy Temple ...

In 70 CE, at the end of a lengthy siege, Roman soldiers stormed the city of Jerusalem, looting and burning as they went.Despite possible efforts of then-general, later-emperor, Titus, to spare the ...

It is not entirely clear, however, if the Menorah depicted on the Arch of Titus is how the Menorah actually looked in the Beit HaMikdash... In fact, there are opinions within the Talmud that the ...

The menorah, once a symbol of the loss of Jerusalem, was now becoming the symbol of a nation about to be reborn and many Jews looked at the Arch of Titus as a symbolic challenger to that rebirth ...

The thrill of Chanukah is upon us as we once again have the privilege of lighting the Menorah. As the symbol of Chanukah par excellence, it brings to mind both the story of religious revival (the ...

The arch, dedicated in 81 C.E., celebrates the destruction of Jerusalem by the Emperor Titus and features an iconic bas-relief carving of a menorah on one side.

Jews knew about Titus, but few had seen the Arch of Titus before the early modern period when it appeared in books. It was virtually unknown in Eastern Europe until the 1880s.