The Torah is described as the Tree of Life, and there is a legend that Mount Sinai once was a “green mountain” covered with ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

World's oldest monastery - The monastery was founded by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the sixth century at the biblical site of the burning bush at the foot of Mount Sinai, where Moses was ...

In gratitude for liberating us from Egypt, we agreed to be God’s eternal covenant partners.The post Chosen for what? A post-Shavuot reflection appeared first on JNS.org.

The monastery was founded by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the sixth century at the biblical site of the burning bush at the foot of Mount Sinai, where Moses ... to the serene mountain village.

Jews are currently in the afterglow of Shavuot, when we commemorate the great revelation at Sinai, where the entire nation of Israel—millions of men, women and children—heard with their own ears the ...

At Mount Sinai, when the Jewish people received the Torah, it was through a cloud. A thick, divine cloud settled on the ...

Four days later, on Tuesday morning, the day before the Exodus, we slaughtered it, and in the evening, with its blood on the doorpost telling us that our slave nation is special, we ate its meat as ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster unpacks the Jewish perspective of Shavuot - the festival known to ...