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.

The lighting recalls the menorah, or candelabra, ... and emblazoned an image of the moment on the Arch of Titus — no one predicted that a Jewish state would be reborn, ...

“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 ...

The 2,000-year old menorah. ... classics professor Professor Robert Garland tells Reader’s Digest, because it’s “depicted on the frieze on the Arch of Titus in the Forum.” ...

Was it looted by the Romans and taken to Rome to be depicted on the Arch of Titus? If so, is it still kept in the cellars of the Vatican?The 2,000 years later, search for Second Temple menorah ...

The possibility that the menorah used in the Second Temple in Jerusalem is hidden deep in the cellars of the Vatican has excited researchers, rabbis and adventurers for generations. Let’s jump to the ...

Yet in retrospect the Arch of Titus does symbolize a key message of Hanukkah, one intensely relevant amid today’s rising tide of antisemitism and hostility toward Israel: However genocidal and ...

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 ...