For probably the first time in 2,000 years, priests—wearing white gowns and sounding trumpets—sacrificed a sheep inside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City. Religious Jews slaughtered the animal in the ...

Pilgrims came from hundreds of miles away to sacrifice animals at an ancient temple in Jerusalem, new research suggests. An analysis of bones found in an ancient dump in the city dating back 2,000 ...

JERUSALEM — Four days before Passover, a dozen self-styled priests dressed in white walked barefoot onto a stage, carefully rinsing their hands and feet. Two more blew slender silver trumpets, ...

For the last 10 years, on the eve of Passover, the Federman family has loaded a young male goat into their car and driven from their farm in a West Bank Jewish community to the Old City of Jerusalem, ...

Many people have the idea that, in biblical times, the Jerusalem temple was exclusively for Jewish use. This is a natural assumption, given the hostilities that led to the Jewish War of the A.D. 60s, ...

It sounds like a bit of a lark when the seizure of a goat by authorities likely precluded plenty of bloodshed. Unfortunately, in Israel, these matters are deadly serious — especially when it could ...

Jewish activists who want to rebuild the holy temple in Jerusalem are hosting a provocative Passover sacrifice in an archaeological park adjacent to the Temple Mount this year, Haaretz reported. The ...