Egypt has ordered the closure of the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, the world's oldest continuously functioning ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world.

The fourth Book of the Torah begins on a certain high note, but turns out to be the saddest and most disappointing in the ...

Egypt has experienced rapid population growth in recent decades. Between 1986 to 2018, the number of people in the country doubled. If the current rate of population growth continues, the number of ...

It’s a narrative of transition—from dependence to agency, from miracles to management. Within its verses unfold the full drama of collective life: the struggle for leadership and legitimacy, the fear ...

Almost 15 centuries after its foundation, the oldest Christian monastery in operation puts "lock" and even in a period of ...

These two, with Sukkot, the “Feast of Booths,” were the three pilgrimage festivals of ancient Judaism. The Book of Exodus ...

As the centuries pass, most important words change their meaning; adding new meanings to the old meanings, which are sometimes even lost. So Rabbi Judah said: If one translates a verse literally one ...

They were spoken in preparation to answer a higher calling, no matter the challenge; words confirming the trials, adversity and duty that personify an attempt to exemplify moral ideals.The post ...

When future historians come to write of our era, they will write of all the miracles but they will also discover another ...

One unconventional theory casts doubt on the widely-accepted belief about where the critical biblical scene between Moses and ...

Abraham. The first Jew, the O.G. Abraham Avinu was the original Hebrew (“Ivri”). Avraham Avinu blazed the path for each of us to connect to G-d in our own way. In many ways, he is like Classic Coke – ...