On the other hand, for the Christians, if there was no Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, as the Muslims and their allies now pretend, the whole Jesus story is nothing but a story.

The urgency to rebuild the Temple serves as a reminder that the prophecies of Scripture are unfolding exactly as God declared they would.

On the eve of Hanukah, anthropologist Geoffrey Clarfield examines the claim — now sweeping the Arab world — that no Jewish temple ever existed in Jerusalem. On the 25th day of the lunar month ...

It was in Jerusalem that Solomon built the Temple, where prophets walked, where the Shechinah – the Divine Presence – dwelt. And when we were exiled, it was Jerusalem we never forgot.

The next day, Jesus walked into the Temple, the heart of Jerusalem’s religious and economic life, and flipped the tables in the marketplace, which he described as “a den of robbers.” ...