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Mount Sinai

Saint Catherine's Monastery in southern Sinai, in Egypt. (CC, BY-SA, Berthold Werner/Wikimedia)
October 16, 2025, 9:42 pm
Greece, Egypt agree on future of monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Greek PM says
Agreement comes after Athens expressed concern about plans by Egypt to develop a tourism project around the site, where, by Biblical tradition, Moses received the Torah
By Agencies
Yosef Abramowitz smashes tablets atop Jebel Musa in Egypt, thought by some to be the site of Mount Sinai, to symbolize the world’s lack of action on climate change, November 13, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 13, 2022, 9:53 pm
Activists smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate push
Saying officials gathered at COP summit need to do more, Sinai Climate Partnership will seek to recruit religious leaders globally to lobby for faster action on climate change
By Sue Surkes
Twelve standing stones at the base of Mount Karkom, said by one expert to recall 'altar stones' described in the Bible. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 25, 2020, 1:45 pm
Ancient rock etchings on remote Negev plateau evoke the Bible, draw new interest
As Mount Karkom attracts increasing visitors, archaeologists try to protect a prehistoric art-filled site that a top researcher claims is Mount Sinai, complete with ‘burning bush’
By Sue Surkes
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
July 25, 2018, 3:06 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The revelation is taking place today!
The Torah was given once, but receiving it takes place every day
Avrohom Gordimer
January 3, 2018, 3:18 pm
Avrohom Gordimer
It is time to say Kaddish for non-Orthodox Judaism
We should all be extremely saddened by the impending mass disappearance of the bulk of American Jewry
A view of the mosaic of transfiguration which covers the surface of 46 meters square inside the basilica of the monastery of Saint Catherine is shown on Saturday, Dec 16, 2017 in South Sinai, Egypt. (AP/Samy Magdy)
December 17, 2017, 2:14 am
Egypt reopens ancient Sinai library housing 4th-century New Testament
Largest collection of early codices and manuscripts outside of Vatican now open to public at St. Catherine’s Monastery after three years of renovation work
By Samy Magdy
Adina Lewittes
May 30, 2017, 2:05 pm
Adina Lewittes
Break the tablets; then put ’em together
Judaism must be open-sourced, non-hierarchical, collaborative, and sustainable for the very world to survive
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
May 26, 2017, 2:55 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The wandering divine word
Why the desert-wilderness was exactly the right setting for God to give the Torah
Avidan Halivni
January 20, 2016, 2:08 pm
Avidan Halivni
Choose Sinai, not Auschwitz
Jews may come by their persecution complex honestly, but it gets in the way of building a more ethical society
Women celebrate the new month with prayer at the Western Wall, Friday, May 10, 2013(photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)
May 10, 2013, 10:11 pm
A resonant reversal at the Wall, as police protect the pluralists
400 non-Orthodox Jewish women make history at the Western Wall. But for some of them, the sense of victory is tinged by sorrow over the need for an ongoing fight
By Michal Shmulovich
Rev. Jean Louis, son of kidnapped Rev. Michel Louis, joins parishioners as they pray for his father's safe return, Sunday, July 15 (photo credit: AP/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)
July 16, 2012, 10:44 am
Boston church prays for pastor kidnapped in Egypt
Rev. Michel Louis and two others were snatched from a bus in the Sinai Desert by a man protesting the arrest of his uncle by local police
Monastery at St. Catherine in the Sinai desert, believed by many to be the site of biblical Mount Sinai (photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, by Gerard Janot, Wikimedia Commons)
July 15, 2012, 4:19 am
Family fears for the life of American pastor kidnapped in Sinai
Rev. Michel Louis, a diabetic, is one of three US citizens abducted while on a church trip in Egypt
St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. (photo credit: Times of Israel staff)
March 19, 2012, 7:32 am
Sinai kidnappers free Brazilian tourists
Police officer also let go by armed tribesmen late Sunday after the three were nabbed earlier in the day
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