Making unique Jewish crafts can transform Passover holiday celebrations from ho-hum to memorable. The new book “Jewish Threads,” along with other books and Internet sites, can help. BOSTON (JTA) — To ...

Ritual artifacts belonging to the Canaanites, an ancient people referenced in the Old Testament, were recently found in Israel — along with a 5,000-year-old winepress. The Israel Antiquities Authority ...

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This photo provided by the Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage shows the key artifacts on display. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) GYEONGJU, Sept. 30 (Yonhap) -- Buddhist ritual ...

For a religion that has never been static, Judaism has been utilizing many of the same outdated, unchanging ritual objects for what seems like eternity. Judaica has never kept pace with Judaism’s ever ...

It might have been used in some kind of ritual.

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"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...

A Stone Age-era artifact carved with multiple zigzags and what is likely a woman with spread legs suggests that fertility rituals may have been important to early Europeans, according to new research.

To prepare for their first Passover seders, Zoe Scheffy, Lesley Frost and Joanna Brichetto drew on their creative instincts: Scheffy pulled out her knitting needles; Frost gathered scraps of felt, ...