Crusades

New book traces Christian pilgrims' ancient path through Jerusalem

Rodney Aist retraces Jerusalem’s pre-Crusades pilgrim circuit—Holy Sepulchre to Zion, Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives—blending ancient texts, archaeology, and reflection.

|ByGIL ZOHAR
A delegation of more than a thousand Evangelical Christians attend a special prayer outside Jerusalem’s Old City, December 4, 2025
A WOMAN holds an Israeli flag and another person covers her from the rain during the March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in April. Born into the post-Auschwitz covenant, we considered Jew-hatred passé, doomed, like racism; alas, today, it’s surging, the writer laments.

Antisemitism: Humanity’s totalitarian swamp - Opinion

Jew-hatred spikes when societies are under stress and totalitarian thinking spreads, Left and Right.

|ByGIL TROY
Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem.

From Jerusalem to Rome: Veronica’s veil exhibited at St. Peter’s

Skeptics consider the relic, allegedly used to dab Jesus' sweat and blood, a fraud invented during the Crusader period.

|ByGIL ZOHAR
Sultan Saladin of Egypt and Syria.

This week in Jewish history: Saladin's crusade, Babi Yar, Binding of Isaac

A highly abridged version of the daily Dust & Stars.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER

Battling to protect Crusader battlefield

Protesters demonstrate against plan to decommission Horns of Hattin national park.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Horns of Hittin

Pope's aids respond to threats from ISIS

ISIS's latest video depicts a church ransacked by ISIS members while they destroy Christian symbols and tear a picture of Pope Francis.

AUGUST 27, 2017ByJACOB GOFF KLEIN
Pope Francis.

‘Secret’ art on show

The St. Louis French Hospital reveals flaking paintings of Crusaders.

MAY 22, 2014ByGIL ZOHAR
The St. Louis French Hospital and the French-built light rail.