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

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

For more than 3,000 years, the Mount of Olives has served as Jerusalem's primary burial ground and the final resting place of notable biblical figures, such as Zechariah and Absalom. There are ...

This 1930s film captures scenes of daily life, labor, and architecture in a Middle Eastern or North African setting, possibly Jerusalem and surrounding areas. It depicts traditional agricultural ...

On our first visit to Israel, an Israeli relative took us to the Mount of Olives on the final night ... instead to certainly express the points of view and perspectives that they wanted to promote ...

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If the West is going to survive as a semi-concrete entity and not either be subsumed into an amorphous global neoliberal blob ...

Some of the Syrians tore off olive ... fate. Israel has in recent months seized a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights and territory in southwestern Syria — including Mount Hermon, ...

In “Under the Olive Tree,” author Olivia Spears guides readers to the Mount of Olives to console ... the Blessed Virgin Mary in order to view Lent and Easter in a completely new way.

After the previous year's row over 'No Other Land', the Palestinian cause had a muted presence at the film festival ...