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So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the ...

Central to that message is a momentous fact. The book of Genesis tells us about families; but early in Exodus’s first chapter ...

Hundreds gather at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre for prayers for the late pontiff led by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian put down a Jewish uprisal, forbade the Jews to enter Jerusalem ... of the Jews as the land promised by Jehovah to the children of Israel; home of the ...

The problem of affordable home ownership in Fort Worth was highlighted in a 2023 report of the city’s Neighborhood ...

Rachel Cockerell's "Melting Point" touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from ...

One recently freed woman, Tehila, expressed the depth of this transformation in her own words: I enter the Festival ... road ahead before reaching the Promised Land, so too must women like Tehila ...

“The odds were against the Israelites,” he noted ... and they themselves do not get to enter the promised land. Richard Michelson’s picture book, Next Year the White House: Barack ...

It is the Feast of Easter that surpasses all others, eminently more important than our observance of the Savior’s birth.

At the closing revival event, the faithful had lined up before 5 p.m. to enter the church — to get splashed ... long Mass and a reenactment of the ancient Israelites crossing the Red Sea to the ...