For Jews, the Arch of Titus was a place of humiliation. Stephen Fine, in his excellent book “The Menorah, ” mentions a Papal ritual that lasted until the 1500’s.

To celebrate the holiday, Sharansky made a makeshift menorah, which was soon confiscated. In response, Sharansky engaged in a hunger strike, and the prison commander, worried about a public ...

“With the Menorah, it is different. We have a depiction of the Golden Temple Menorah in bas-relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome,” he said. The Arch depicts Roman soldiers carrying the Menorah through ...

A relief on the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum depicts Roman soldiers carrying the menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem after destroying the sacred structure in A.D. 70.

This is the legend that the Menorah, or candlestick, of the Second Jewish Temple, which was brought by the conquered Jews to Rome after the destruction of the Temple, lies buried at the bottom of ...

Hidden treasures often carry much historical significance. Almost 1,950 years ago, in the year 70 AD, the Romans sacked the Temple of Jerusalem and absconded with the temple’s prized Menorah.

The prevailing assumption among researchers is that the famous stone relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome, which depicts the menorah and other vessels carried by Roman soldiers during their ...

The prevailing assumption among researchers is that the famous stone relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome, which depicts the menorah and other vessels carried by Roman soldiers during their triumphal ...

A relief on the arch shows soldiers triumphantly holding aloft artifacts plundered from the Temple, most prominently its great golden menorah. The news service quickly realized its blunder.

The Arch of Titus, in the city’s historic center, was built nearly 2,000 years ago to celebrate the eponymous Roman general’s conquering of Jerusalem and destruction of its Holy Temple.

The menorah was so representative of Judaism that an image of one, stolen by Jerusalem’s Roman conquerors, was carved into Rome’s Arch of Titus. It’s challenging to find a synagogue that doesn’t ...