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Hani was walking, as he did every year, with his wife and children toward the Holy Fire celebration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. But this year, it was different. As they neared the Old City in ...

Jerusalem. A meeting place of holy and secular. A place of synagogues, churches and mosques. A place there old and new merge into something so beautiful, so special, it takes your breath away. No ...

In Israel, Jewish life felt public, welcoming, and alive; in Montreal, it has felt guarded, costly, and closed. There is a difference between being alone and being excluded, and as Pesach approaches, ...

The readings for Epiphany, especially Matthew’s Gospel, pose a paradox. We have two sets of protagonists. One is “Magi from the east,” essentially astronomer-astrologers who, guided by their ...

When there’s news out of Jerusalem, reports often point to recent history to explain how such a complex web of communities came to reside in the Holy City. But as historians describe in the CNN ...

A secretive real estate agreement by the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem has signed away some 25 percent of the Armenian Quarter of Israel's holy city. Now residents are fighting to hold on to ...

In October 2023, a Jewish tourist from the United States began smashing ancient Roman artifacts in Jerusalem’s Israel Museum that he claimed were “blasphemous” and “against the Torah.” He damaged a ...

JERUSALEM — Jewish revelers in a Purim parade pass protesters holding placards marking the days since hostages from Israel have been held by Hamas. Outside the church of Gethsemane, Christians ...