On the summit of Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus, members of the Samaritan community -- one of the smallest religious communities in the world -- build their homes, believing the spot ...

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MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank — The courtyard on Mount Gerizim overlooking the northern West Bank city of Nablus was abuzz Sunday evening as Samaritan elders led their small community in vociferous prayer ...

MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank (AFP) — Men and boys dressed in white led the sheep to their fate, pushing and dragging them to a narrow, stone-lined trench on the mountaintop ceremonial ground. The tiny ...

The archaeological excavation site on Mount Gerizim, near Shechem, was officially inaugurated in a special ceremony on Thursday. The ceremony was attended by Environment Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud), ...

Dozens of Samaritans, a small religious sect based in the West Bank city of Nablus, performed their annual Sukkah pilgrimage on Sunday to the nearby Mount Gerizim. Samaritans perform the ritual every ...

Hodge-podge. That precise, academic term is the first that used to come to my mind when thinking of the Book of Deuteronomy. And it didn’t bother me that this was so; in fact, it seemed most fitting.

Samaritans slaughtered goats and sheep as hundreds gathered on the West Bank to mark the eve of Passover with ritualistic sacrifice. The ancient community gathered on Mount Gerizim near the city of ...

There are few communities in the world more ancient than the Samaritans. For centuries, the Samaritans have lived in isolation. But now as their numbers diminish, some are looking to the outside world ...

“And it will be, when the Lord, your God, will bring you to the land to which you come, to possess it, that you shall place those blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and those cursing upon Mount Ebal ...

MOUNT GERIZIM - An ethnoreligious group descended from the ancient Semitic inhabitants of the region, the Samaritans say theirs is the true religion of the ancient Israelites. Samaritanism is ...