As in previous years, it is expected that MKs, rabbis and hundreds of members of the public will attend the ceremony. Just like the Passover sacrifice that was offered in the time of the Temple, it ...

A fringe religious group on Monday night asked newly installed National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for permission to perform the Passover ritual sacrifice on the Temple Mount this coming spring ...

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Hamas threatened Israel on Wednesday over plans by Jewish activists to perform ritual sacrifices on the Temple Mount for the holiday of Passover. On Monday, the Returning to the Mount extremist group ...

JERUSALEM — Four days before Passover, a dozen self-styled priests dressed in white walked barefoot onto a stage, carefully rinsing their hands and feet. Two more blew slender silver trumpets, ...

Tonight, the Biblical Festival of Passover (Pesach) begins, coinciding this year with Good Friday. I want to explore a little bit of what the Passover represents. "But He was pierced for our ...

For Christians as well as Jews, Passover – beginning at sundown Friday and ending at sundown on April 7 – is a particularly important holiday. You say that Christians don’t celebrate Passover? But of ...

Before the destruction of the Second Temple, the priests of old would sacrifice a lamb on the occasion of Passover. More than two millennia later, Israeli activists seeking access to the present-day ...

The remaining members of an ancient sect which broke off from mainstream Judaism thousands of years ago gathered at their holiest site in Israel to skewer sheep to mark Passover. The Samaritan ...

Two Jewish activists who attempted to sacrifice a lamb on the Temple Mount have been sentenced to 50 hours of community service. In March 2010, the eve of the Passover holiday, activists Noam Federman ...