Samaritans are not Jews but are part of “Am Yisrael,” the Israelite people. Each Samaritan, Tsedaka said, can trace back to which tribe — Ephraim, Menasseh or Levi — he or she comes from.

The Samaritans represent one of the oldest religious communities in the world, often overshadowed by their Jewish and Christian neighbors. This video outlines their unique traditions, sacred texts, ...

Q&A with Jewish scholar Steven Fine on the history of a biblical minority. The Good Samaritan shows up in the Gospels as an apparent exception to his people, since he’s the “good” one. Then ...

The Samaritan Torah is written in a different ancient Semitic script from the Jewish Torah. Photo by Moshe Alafi. Yes, their head coverings are more like turbans and fezzes than kippot and yes ...

The story Jesus offered in reply to the scholar’s question is well-known to many inside and outside of Christian circles. The ...

The Sunday gospel lectionary reading for Trinity 4 in Year C is Luke 10.25-37, most commonly known as the Parable of the Good ...

Samaritans, like Jews, are descendants of ancient Israelites. They trace their lineage to one of the “lost” 10 tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel.

Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and ...

Pursuant to Operation Reinhardt, the plan to exterminate some 2.5 million Jews in occupied Poland, the regime ordered death camps built in Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka.

Included in this list is the uniquely Samaritan 10th commandment (at the heart of the Jewish/Samaritan schism) to worship God ...

The Samaritan center of worship is on Mount Gerizim in the present-day West Bank, instead of Jerusalem, where the Jewish temple stood. The faith has its own priesthood, religious calendar and ...

But Samaritans were viewed as “half-breeds” whose blood and worship were no longer Jewish, and therefore looked down upon by the Jews. Thus, the parable of Christ had a twist for its first ...