The Priest divests him (her) that comes to be illuminated of robes and shoes and faces him (her) eastward, barefoot and clad in a single garment, hands down. Then, breathing thrice on his (her) face ...

This language has liturgically united Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian, Bulgarian, and other Slavic Orthodox peoples for many centuries. Many modern converts to Orthodoxy also attend churches that use this ...

In time, Orthodox life is bounded by daily and seasonal religious cycles of obligations and events, including observance of the Sabbath and holidays, and, for men, ongoing religious study and ...

At the foot of Mount Sinai outside Cairo sits a small Greek Orthodox ... Greek Bible. When the Christian monks were unwilling to loan the ancient scrolls to Tischendorf for scholarly study ...

This is a facsimile edition of the late Howard Clark Kee's NRSV Study Apocrypha, first published by Cambridge ... Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. For a full list, see here: ...

The aim of this study is to describe the traditional Biblical and patristic Amharic commentary material of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and to present in translation a sufficient sample of the ...

Some 250 more listen to the class online. The classes are part ... Farber’s life is a case study in the obstacles that Orthodox women have faced in trying to study Talmud at the highest levels.

Secondly, I remember when we first discovered the Orthodox Church, before we were even in, and all six of my kids were at home, we’d go on family vacations—we’d drive, maybe on a two-lane highway, ...

English theologian John Wycliffe championed translating the Bible from Latin into the common ... to take the entire codex back to Europe for study. The monks, alerted to its value by the foreign ...

That was the year the National Jewish Population Survey — then the most comprehensive, ambitious study of American Jewry ever undertaken ... “A second Holocaust” is how one group of Orthodox rabbis ...

There is also a significant element of the ultra-Orthodox community who are implacably opposed to the state and feel no obligation to serve its interests. They are willing to endure any hardships ...

(photo credit: MARCO BELLO/REUTERS) The majority of both haredi (ultra-Orthodox) and Modern Orthodox (MO) Jews in the US plan to vote for former president Donald Trump, according to research ...