What Is a Pidyon Haben? Inside the Jewish firstborn redemption ritual — and why it’s so rare Learn what happens at a pidyon haben, why this Jewish “redemption of the firstborn” is so rare, and how different communities observe it.
Are Israelis and Palestinians fighting over religion? The people of Hebron have grown up haunted, not just by the Biblical figures that make this place holy, but by the wails of their murdered families and friends.
