At a Senate confirmation hearing for Mike Huckabee, nominated by President Donald Trump as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel ...

This column was first preached as a sermon at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, Vashon Island on the Second Sunday in Lent, March 16, 2025. The readings for that day are Genesis 15:1-12,17-18; ...

Israel markets itself as “the land of creation” — and for good reason. Israel is home to the Holy Land, to a plethora of ...

The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives (credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST) The court ruled that the woman was not competent to make decisions regarding her body or inheritance ...

Officials say negotiations would also include the future of Israeli military outposts in Lebanon and of Lebanese prisoners still held in Israel. By Adam Rasgon Reporting from Jerusalem Israel and ...

Asceticism is the practice of denial of physical or psychological desires in order to attain a spiritual ideal or goal, often self-inflicted.

JERUSALEM - Israel will permit some Muslims over 50 and ... s Old City on a hill known to Jews as Har ha-Bayit, or Temple Mount, and to Muslims internationally as al-Haram al-Sharif, or The ...

an Arab village near Jerusalem. The workers, who had arrived in Israel for employment in the construction industry, were stripped of their passports by their captors and left without the ability ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a sunny and crisp Jerusalem winter day, a moderate crowd of vendors with old-fashioned trolleys, women wearing ...

The forces that sought Israel’s destruction—academic elites ... and even the stones aren’t spared. The Mount of Olives, home to a 2,500-year-old Jewish cemetery—the oldest in the world ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is facing calls from the Netanyahu government and local Jewish groups to again recognise West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital if the Coalition wins the federal election.