A tribe descended from the *Jews of the *Northern Kingdom. The Samaritans themselves claim to be descendants of the tribes of *Ephraim and *Manasseh. They were believed to have intermarried with the Assyrian conquerors after 721 BCE and were rejected...

SAMARITANS. The Samaritans are an ethno-religious group in Palestine and in Israel. Their religious center is Mount Gerizim in the vicinity of Nablus. Half of the community lives on the mountain, half lives in Ḥolon, a southern suburb of Tel...

The Samaritans (Hebrew: שומרונים‎ Shomronim), known in the Talmud as Kuthim (Hebrew: כותים‎), are an ethnic group of the Levant. Ethnically, they are descended from a group of Israelite inhabitants that have connections to ancient...

A woman accused of rendering a friend a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car "like a rag doll" may not be protected by California's good Samaritan law, an appellate court ruled.The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision Wednesday that...

A woman accused of rendering a friend a paraplegic by pulling her out of a wrecked car "like a rag doll" may not be protected by California's good Samaritan law, an appellate court ruled.The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a decision Wednesday that...

A man with a shotgun opened fire on motorists and police who stopped to help with what appeared to be a wreck on a downtown freeway early Sunday, killing two people and wounding two others before taking his own life, authorities said.Authorities say they may...

Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies _ the nighttime Passover sacrifice.The entire Samaritan community, which totals just over 700 people, was...