Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday, January 29, this year, and that gives you just enough time to gather vessels for your most striking altar yet. Kate Berry, Domino’s editor at large, arranges ...

Think for a moment how powerful the sense of smell is, how fragrance penetrates boundaries and how burning incense creates a cloud-like aura. Now consider why the incense altar appears to be out ...

The incense that burned on this altar has always attracted special interest for its unusual life-giving properties that we see later in the Torah (Bamidbar 17:11-13).

The Israel Antiquities Authority said Thursday the discovery of the 2,000-year-old incense altar, along with the nature of the graves, shows the cemetery was pagan.

Certain inscriptions from this vicinity showed that Aphrodite, “the unconquerable,” sender of Spring, was worshipped, and that an ancient incense-altar had existed there.

Cannabis residues have been found on an altar in an ancient desert temple in Israel.