This wasn’t a “protest.” It was the resuscitation of ancient hatreds, the reanimation of medieval hysteria. It was Jew hatred ...

Before the Kohen Gadol could come into G-d’s chamber with the blood of the sacrifice, there was a barrier to entry. That barrier is called lashon hara, slander. G-d cannot abide the presence of slan ...

On this day, at the end of Holy Mass – during which the priest washes the feet of 12 people from the congregation – the celebrant divests the altar from the altar cloth, crucifix and candles ...

Some of the latest Mary scholarship focuses on her as a Jewish mother ... In the basilica, behind the main altar, protected by glass, hung the original cloth image of Our Lady of Guadalupe ...

A proposed museum in the former Jewish ghetto in Vilnius ... the bimah”—or altar—“the decorated ceiling,” Freund explained. “All of that had been underground, and it survived.” ...

It is pleasing to think we have candles burning in our name on the altar of God, and if the Jewish people yearly ... broad piece of woolen cloth forming a part of the religious dress of monks ...

In the curved parts of the ceiling, known as lunettes, Michelangelo painted the ancestors of Jesus and scenes depicting the suffering of the Jewish people ... wall behind the altar in the Sistine ...

When the priest is coming to give the last Sacraments, the following things should be prepared: 1.A table covered with a white cloth ... life to the service of the altar and they cannot return ...

A small group of Jewish faculty say that a Day of the Dead altar at San Jose State University was a “modern version of the ...

Yet Alcatraz, for all its cruelty and bad karma, has been a recurrent theme in American Jewish history and culture. When Alcatraz opened in 1934, Rabbi Rudolph Coffee, a pioneering chaplain in ...

Brighton, N.Y. — An event at the JCC Sunday morning honored the lives of Jewish veterans. The event was held by the Jewish Veterans Group and was aimed at celebrating the lives of Jewish vets ...

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered an altar that holds the burial of a child and adult in the Maya city of Tikal, a finding that could help researchers discern the nature of the city's ...