in our All Hallow’s Eve episode. And religion reporter Sam Kestenbaum joins to talk vampires, mummies, QAnon devotees, and groups with some cult-y vibes (including maybe … some of the churches ...

Phillips said he served in the U.S. Marines but was never deployed to Vietnam. Sam Kestenbaum is a contributing editor at The Forward and a writer-in-residence at The New York Public Library.

Khalid nods towards me, his eyebrows rising slightly. I hadn’t yet told Khalid or anyone else that I met in Yemen that was a Jew. It hadn’t come up, it didn’t matter, I told myself. But I was also ...

“What did you say your name was again?” “Sam,” I said. “Sam Kestenbaum.” He raised his eyebrows. On the island, the name Kestenbaum is often met with this kind of puzzled ...

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Before the apocalypse, however, he’s fitting in a trip to Mar-a-Lago. Credit... Supported by By Sam Kestenbaum Photographs by Andrew White On a Sunday morning at Beth Israel Worship Center in ...

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Credit...Photo illustration by Andrew White for The New York Times Supported by By Sam Kestenbaum For years, the fliers of a mystic consultant named Keano have cast a ...

When you are in the business of prophecy, what do you do when prophecy fails? By Sam Kestenbaum This spring, the media mogul Stephen E. Strang made an unusual apology to readers in the pages of ...

Email Sam Kestenbaum at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum Now more than ever, American Jews need independent news they can trust, with reporting driven by truth ...

For a fee. A Happy Science prayer booklet.Credit...Adrienne Grunwald for The New York Times Supported by By Sam Kestenbaum When New York went into lockdown last month, emissaries of a religious ...

Get out your Ouija boards, pilgrims, for the return of a mysterious ’60s spirit. By Sam Kestenbaum ELMIRA, N.Y. — Off the main street of this small upstate city, there is a crumbling three ...