Some religious groups believe the ashes of the cows can be used to build a third Jewish temple in Jerusalem Religious Israeli settlers practise the red heifer ritual with a cutout cow in front of ...

This coming Shabbat we read the Torah portion that delineates the laws of the Red Heifer. Jews who contacted a dead body were deemed ritually impure. The process of purification was lengthy, but one ...

This week’s Torah portion begins with, and is named after, the key word chukat. Chukat means “the law of” and specifically refers to the ritual law of the red heifer. What distinguishes a chok from ...

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Byron Stinson has always been a man of strong faith. And recently that faith came into play for a mission. Jewish faith leaders he knew needed a red heifer to replicate a ceremony depicted in the ...

American Airlines flight 146 touched down at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on time, arriving from New York’s JFK airport as one of the dozens of flights that arrive in Israel from the US daily. While a ...

The Temple Institute has so far raised $33,000 on Indiegogo to breed a red heifer, a requirement for priestly purification rituals. It’s been nearly two millennia since the Second Temple in Jerusalem ...

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A group of religious Israelis have been pictured practising the ritual of the red heifer, which is meant to herald the building of a new Jewish temple on the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque. According to ...