Rome redirected traditional Jewish temple taxes to fund the temple of Jupiter

Evidence

after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 he also levied the fiscus Iudaicus, a new empire-wide tax on all Jews – women, children, the elderly and slaves included – that effectively diverted the half-shekel that they contributed to the Temple of Jerusalem to that of Jupiter Capitolinus in Rome. — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 712

Categorization

  • corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 712