February 23rd marks Clean Monday: A time-honored Orthodox ritual that turns the act of cleaning and organizing into spiritual ...

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February 23rd marks Clean Monday, a time-honored Orthodox ritual that turns cleaning and organizing into spiritual renewal ...

The Euclid Avenue Temple, which has a membership of over 1,300 families, and which is one of the largest and most influential Reform congregations in America, has reintroduced in its Passover services ...

JERUSALEM -- Worshippers filled Christianity's most revered church on Saturday, lighting rows of candles, dripping hot wax on their faces and dancing in celebration of the Orthodox Easter "holy fire" ...

When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles. But she took the rite of passage a step further, ...

Animals rights activists have cried fowl at kapparot (also called kaporos), a 2,000-year-old Orthodox Jewish tradition involving ritual chicken slaughter. In preparation for Yom Kippur, practitioners ...

Romania's Orthodox Church is under pressure to change its baptism ritual after a baby boy died following a ceremony in which he was immersed three times in water. Romania's Orthodox Church is under ...