Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samaritans celebrate Shavuot atop Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank. Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua via Getty Images “Good Samaritan” is a ...

No. Not that one lonely Samaritan, on a road two millennia ago. This is not about him, famous from the New Testament parable of The Good Samaritan who stops and helps a beaten traveler after two ...

Q&A with Jewish scholar Steven Fine on the history of a biblical minority. The Good Samaritan shows up in Jesus’ parable in Luke 10 without much explanation of where he came from. And then he exits ...

An entire community of 150 Samaritans crossed the Israel-Jordan border today to celebrate Passover at Mount Gerizim in Nablus, the Biblical She chem in the eastern part of Palestine now held by Jordan ...

Wearing white overalls and red fez hats, dozens of Samaritan men slaughtered sheep for Passover on April 11 as prayers in ancient Hebrew echoed across Mount Gerizim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Itzhak Ben Amram, high priest of the Samaritan sect, is expected to cross Jewish lines tomorrow from Nablus to enter the new city of Jerusalem for consultations with Israel leaders, including Itzhak ...

And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage. —Exodus 13:3 Across the world this week Jehovah’s people gathered, family by family, in ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'The Samaritans: A Biblical People,' opened Sept. 16 at the Museum of the Bible and includes artifacts spanning from the second century before the Common Era to contemporary ...

Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice’s Jewish Hospice Program has been a flurry of activity in December. Recently, the program received a generous gift of personal care items from the National Council of ...