William was a Christian monk for 28 years, and served in the faith alongside his father, Avraham, who was born Jewish, survived the Holocaust, turned to Christianity, and then re-embraced Judaism.

While it’s true that traditional monasticism is declining in many historic Christian traditions, new monasticism—the contemporary reappropriation of monastic wisdom—is still very much alive.

Old Greek Inscription From an Ancient Fortress, Hints at Byzantine Christianity A team of Hebrew University archaeologists ...

including new insights into how the literature of Christian monks made its way into Jewish thought. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, a scholar of rabbinic Judaism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ...

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt.

The Irish Christian communities were not strangers to attacks and raids from local gangs. However, it has been suggested that the monks wrote more about the Viking raids because the Scandinavians ...