“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 ...

A member of the Samaritan sect holds a Torah scroll during the sect's traditional pilgrimage marking the holiday of Shavuot, atop Mount Gerizim near the West Bank city of Nablus early on June 16, 2013 ...

MOUNT GERIZIM, West Bank — Levi Ben-Avishai Ben-Pinhas, the high priest of the tiny Samaritan community that traces its lineage back to biblical times and has followers in Israel and the Palestinian ...

“I am giving before you, this day, a blessing and a curse…” (Deuteronomy 11:26). So opens Re’eh, referring to the covenant at Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Eybal that dramatically concludes the Book of ...

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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.