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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 Arch of Titus, a marble monument in the heart of the Roman Forum, ... who added that the arch menorah was chosen as a symbol of modern Israel in 1949. Link copied!

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...