The crucial thing to remember is that nowadays, there are temples and synagogues everywhere you go. There is not a Jewish community in the world that doesn't have a synagogue, and many of them are ...
Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.
A synagogue is a place of worship for Jews ... the stone tablets engraved with the Ten Commandments were kept in the Temple.
Yishai Sarid's "The Third Temple," now in English translation by Yardenne Greenspan, imagines a world where the Kingdom of ...