Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

But I can address the difference between Hasidic and Orthodox Jews. It’s the same as the difference between New Yorkers and Americans, or the difference between the French and Europeans, i.e., one is ...

It will not be recognized by Orthodox Judaism because it is a nullity. (However, since Conservative Judaism’s youth movement, USY, now is open to inter-dating, your children would have access to ...

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The Orthodox Christian community in Reading has held a ritual blessing of the River Thames in one of the first major celebrations of the year. Worshippers from the Prophet Elias Greek Orthodox ...

Orthodox Christians around the world have been celebrating Christmas by attending church services. While the majority of the Christian world celebrate Christmas Day on 25 December, for many of the ...

The group that Litwack headed at the time, the Teach Coalition affiliated with the Orthodox Jewish Union, also targeted voters in Jewish enclaves in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and ...

Many ultra-Orthodox Jews believe that military service is incompatible with their way of life, and fear that those who enlist will be secularized. Israelis who do serve, however, say the decades ...

Israel has turned to enlisting ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews of draft age after more than a year of war – against Hamas, Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups in the Middle East – has ...

Emmanuel Castillo, 32, converted to the Orthodox church in 2019, a journey that started when he began reading the Bible while he was guarding al-Qaeda prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. The former ...

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