Repeated attacks on Jewish visitors to the Cave of Machpelah, near Hebron, perpetrated by Arab youths, led to a formal protest lodged with the Vaad Leumi, National Council of Palestine Jews, by one of ...

The ancestral city of Hebron is taking on a holy atmosphere these days and is becoming the focus of the Jewish people's Selichot prayers. Head of the Hebron local council, Eyal Gelman, invites the ...

At the very beginning of this week’s portion, Sarah dies. In search of a burial place for her, Abraham spoke with the Hittites, among them Ephron the Hittite, who owned the Cave of Machpelah. When ...

And they buried him [Abraham], Isaac and Ishmael his sons, in the Cave of Machpelah … (Genesis 25:9). I wonder: how many of you have been to Hebron? Hebron means “friendship” or “unity.” How ironic.