Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican before a crowd of 150,00 people.

Whether through Kabbalistic gatherings, heartfelt rituals, or a kitchen filled with cheese Danishes, Shavuot remains a ...

A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

To the extent that Christianity derives from Judaism, The Jewish attachment to Yerushalayim ... service the Kohanim arose to give the priestly blessing. The general rule is that the priestly ...

"She wore it with a smile, happily educating anyone who asked about it. She made me want to be more Jewish." Image: Pic: Linkedin/Sarah Milgrim Ms Milgrim had spent time in Tel Aviv volunteering ...

The traditional Birkat Kohanim is recited by the descendants of Aharon the High Priest.

Israelis are heavily divided in their attitude toward the abundance of street cats roaming the holy land, a new study by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem revealed. The peer-reviewed study ...

But peel back even a single layer, and you’ll find something much darker: a coin literally branded as “Jew Proof,” marketed to Peters’ followers as a weapon against “usurious Jewish ...

Women from the Hebrew Israelite community in Dimona, Israel dance during a celebration of New World Passover, their 1967 exodus from the United States and their later arrival in Israel ...