In Judaism, a body brought home and buried allows a soul to rest and lets the Jewish community honour one of their oldest ...

Water holds a special place in spiritual traditions around the world. For centuries, people have used showers, baths, and ...

I am a secular Jew betrothed to an agnostic Catholic so hardly a likely candidate for the pre-marriage ritual bath. But I’m glad I partook in the ancient Jewish practice ...

The basement of a former strip club in the historic area of Lesser Poland, purchased 15 years ago, has accidentally revealed a historic Jewish site - a mikveh or Jewish ritual purification bath filled ...

Acting as an extension of Baina’s artisanal textile collection comes Apothecary, a curated edit of considered essentials for the practice of bathing. Since its inception, Baina has been elevating ...

Each year the people of Zurich burn a giant effigy of a snowman on Sechseläutenplatz, the city’s central square. How long it takes the snowman to burn – and the time it takes the flames to lick the ...

Following the invention of opera in Florence around the year 1600, its popularity spread throughout Italy. The early works of Peri, Caccini and Monteverdi offered a rebirth of Greek Drama with an ...

A father will be imprisoned for life after he pleaded guilty today to murdering his eight-year-old daughter and attempting to murder the child's mother. Muhammed Al Shaker Al Tamimi (35) of Lower ...

A Delhi man marked his divorce with a unique celebration, performing a traditional milk bath ritual followed by cutting a cake inscribed with "Happy Divorce 120 gram gold 18 lakh cash." He shared his ...

A video of a man celebrating his divorce has gone viral and has taken social media by storm. The clip shows him performing a traditional milk bath ritual alongside his mother before marking the ...