Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

In Israel, everyone must serve at least two years in the IDF once they turn 18. For decades, ultra-Orthodox men like Mendel could avoid being drafted — as long as they continued their studies of ...

With the Muslim fasting season coinciding with Christian Lent this year, the usual contingent of Christian leaders was especially august on March 11, with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III ...

A supermajority of Christians today still hold to this view, whether Lutheran or Orthodox, Anglican or Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Church of Christ. Even Anabaptists (literally ...

The sect living at the monastery at Qumran was removed from the orthodox Judaism of the time. Whatever its precise nature may have been, whether Essene or not (and to the present writer this ...

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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, ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, started on March 3, 2025, when Greece celebrated “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean Monday.” The date ...