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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In 1993, the PLO and Israel signed the Oslo Accords which ... a plan was revealed to expropriate church land on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem to turn it into a national park.

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 ...