The annual Lag BaOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron in Israel attracts as many as half a million visitors every year. Because of COVID-19, this year’s event was less crowded, but even so, over 100,000 ...

In a groundbreaking appointment, the Academy for Jewish Religion, California (AJR,CA), has selected Tamar Frankiel as its new president, making her the first Orthodox woman to lead an American ...

“I was not a cheerful agnostic,” confesses Kyriacos C. Markides in “The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality.” Born in Cyprus and raised in the traditions of Greek Orthodoxy, he was ...

EVERETT – Rabbi Yossi Mandel intends to leave no stone unturned in his search for Snohomish County’s Jews. “It’s really important that we not miss a single person,” he said. Mandel and his wife, Chaya ...

It’s a beautiful faith a rich blend of icons, incense and mysticism. And now it has a formal home in Lawrence. Father John Mack, an ordained Orthodox Christian priest, and a community of Orthodox ...

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Putin has long been known to have a fascination for powerful 'orthodox mysticism' and occult rituals VLADIMIR Putin visited Mongolia to meet the world’s “most powerful shamans” and ask for guidance on ...