Covering Religion in Israel/Palestine
- Day 7: ‘The past is my ID’: A visit to Dheisheh refugee camp
The wheels of the Lilian, our trusted bus, spun on empty streets this morning. It was Saturday, Shabbat — the […] - Day 6: Breaking Bread in Bethlehem, ‘Holy FOMO’ in Jerusalem 
On Friday, we met tour guide Saleem Anfous, who took us through the Old City of Bethlehem. Our first task […] - Day 5: Reporting in Jerusalem, and a View Behind the Wall
After days of gloomy skies, the sun returned to Bethlehem and Jerusalem, just in time for our first day of […] - Day 4: Rain on the stones of Jerusalem: On the ground in the Old City
The early-morning sun reflected off the rows of white houses of Bethlehem as we started the day. Storm clouds started […] - Day 3: Baptisms in the Jordan and the View From an Israeli Settlement
In the trusty hands of Zaki, our driver from East Jerusalem, we loaded into our big blue bus and departed […] - Day 2: From Mary’s Well, to a Church Halfway House to an Ahmadi Mosque
By Ania Gruszczynska and Nora Zaim-Sassi This morning, we met Bassam Hakim, our tour guide around Nazareth. Hakim grew up […] - Day 1: In the Footsteps of Christian Pilgrims
The New Testament describes the miracles Jesus performed — many of them near the Sea of Galilee, in the northwestern […]
Covering Religion in New York
- ‘A Most Beloved Part of Our Service’:The Slow Procession to the Ark in a Sephardic Synagogue
On a January morning at a synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Rabbi Ira Rohde, and behind him, Rabbi Dr. […] - Teaching Zohar through a Progressive Jewish Lens
Sacred and mystical Jewish texts are usually studied at home or in the synagogue. But on a recent evening in […] - Druze Faith: A Philosophy Carried From Past to Present
Members of the Druze faith are scattered all over New York City; there is no house of worship where they […] - The Upshernish: A Celebratory Haircut Connecting Father to Son, Teacher to Student
In his three years of life, Yechiel Zeev Mergui’s mocha-colored hair had never met a scissor’s blades. The untouched strands […] - Drawing the Iconostasis: A Teaching Moment for a Russian Orthodox Sunday School Class
A brief and sparsely attended English-language service had just ended at the Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral, and the larger […]