Every year on the eve of January 6th, which marks Christmas for Coptic Christians, hundreds of North African refugees, based in Israel, make a pilgrimage to Bethlehem to visit Manger Square and the Church of the Nativity for mass.

Last year I, being the only visible journalist and non-refugee, was...

The Na Nachs are a lot like your everyday Orthodox Jews, except they believe serving God involves blasting trance music, dancing on top of vans, painting their mantra on walls and driving party buses around town spreading good times to Jews and gentiles alike.

They live primarily in Israel,...

Every day one can visit the Western Wall (otherwise known as the Wailing Wall or HaKotel in Hebrew) and look to the left side of the magnificent ancient structure, which still stands from 70 C.E., and see men singing, praying loudly, reading Torah, wearing prayer shawls and wrapping