Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ...

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called efforts to deny Jewish ties to the Holy Land is "absurd" and urged historical ...

We have conclusive evidence that Kings David, King Solomon, and King Hezkiyahu are all buried on Har Zion,” one rabbi told ...

at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, was founded in the 6th century and is the oldest Christian monastery still in use for its original function, says UNESCO, which has listed the area as a World ...

As the church enters the season of Pentecost, known in Hebrew as Shavuot, believers are invited to ... Over time, Shavuot became known as the time when God appeared on Mount Sinai and gave the Torah. ...

“Shavuot is my favorite holiday,” Geller says. “Even though all dairy commemorates the tradition, Shavuot has become known as the cheesecake holiday. This is the only time that I reflect on my time in ...

when Israelites would bring harvest offerings to the temple. Today, it’s primarily commemorated as the traditional date on which God gave the Torah — the law that forms the heart of the Jewish ...

As well as culinary customs, Shavuot is one of the three pilgrim festivals when Jews visited the Temple in Jerusalem. Aside from its agricultural connection to the annual harvest it is also the ...

Shavuot, one of the major festivals on the Jewish calendar, marks the conclusion of the counting of the Omer and commemorates one of the foundational events in Jewish tradition: the giving of the ...

Mount Sinai Beth Israel began closing its doors Tuesday after a New York appeals court rejected a community group’s bid to keep it open. The ruling, handed down by the Appellate Division of the ...

But now, that name is going away. Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital will now be called Mount Sinai Morningside. "We wanted to make sure there was no ambiguity in the brand," said Arthur Gianelli ...