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.

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

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 ...

Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an ...

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

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BOULDER, Colo. (OSV News) — As Boulder residents reeled from a violent attack on peaceful demonstrators June 1 who called for ...

Mystery unsettles us. We want to see, name, and understand. And when we cannot, we reach for whatever will steady us. We demand clarity, seek control, and construct ideologies that claim to explain ...

As a Greek delegation prepares to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday to resolve tensions over the fate of St Catherine’s Monastery ...

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

The ruling comes in spite of Egyptian promises to maintain “the unique and sacred religious status of Saint Catherine’s ...

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 ...