My wife and I just returned home to Tel Aviv from Rome, where the sight of the famed menorah etched into the Arch of Titus made us feel unexpectedly emotional. We could see the pain etched in the ...

The Arch of Titus ... scan data of the panel, we could manipulate it, zoom in and see it from angles that you can’t see even when close up.” In their re-creation, the menorah is colored ...

“The recent menorah [Arch of Titus] show was an attempt to get ahead of the menorah myth,” says Fine. “I’m afraid, though, that the chickens have escaped the henhouse, and killing this ...

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.

In the years after the creation of the state, the seven-candled menorah, the exact same one that had been carved on the Arch of Titus nearly 2000 years ago, became the symbol of the seal of Israel.

The current image of the Menorah, as we know it, was adapted from the Menorah that appears on the Arch of Titus. The Arch of Titus was erected to immortalize the Roman victory over the Jews and ...

The thrill of Hanukkah has just been upon us and we once again had the privilege of lighting the Menorah. As the symbol of Hanukkah par excellence, it brings to mind both the story of religious ...

The main decoration is the two relief panels adorning the inside of the arch. One shows Titus in the triumphal ... that draws the attention most is the menorah, a seven-branched candelabra that ...

One of three interior relief panels on the arch, “Spoils of Jerusalem ... in the study of the Arch of Titus, and last year published a book on the Menorah and its evolving symbolic significance ...