As for the name “Palestine,” it was not used in any widespread way to describe the land of Israel until 135 AD – in other ...

Dear Rabbi Gellman: I am a practicing Roman Catholic and I have many wonderful Jewish friends. My DNA shows that I am 2% Ashkenazi (European) Jewish. I honor and empathize with the Jewish culture and ...

Netflix's new series about the return of Jesus to contemporary times is good television but bad theology. In the streaming service's "Messiah," al-Masih, as the returned Jesus is known in Islam, is a ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

There is a bogeyman or hobgoblin many of us have been taught to fear for about 2,000 years. People have been expecting for several thousand years that there will be a messiah, a savior who would bring ...

Jesus’s birth was a silent night, when all was calm and all was bright, but there was a context to the Christmas story critical to understanding the ...

Messiah is an entertaining 10-episode journey that puts the onus of deciding the truth—whether al-Masih is the returned Messiah or an expert-level con man—directly on the viewer. But the dialogue ...

During his catechesis today, Pope John Paul II explained the significance of Psalm 109 as a Messianic hymn, which points to Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world. The Pope gave his catechesis during ...

AMERICAN JESUS returns with THE NEW MESSIAH. A virgin pregnancy in '70s New York forces a young couple to flee for their lives, as evil powers close in to destroy them. An angel in a dream foretells a ...

Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, I read your weekly column in Newsday “faithfully”. I learn so much from you. I am a practicing Roman Catholic and I have many wonderful Jewish friends. My DNA shows that I am 2 ...

(RNS) — Netflix’s new series about the return of Jesus to contemporary times is good television but bad theology. In the streaming service’s “Messiah,” al-Masih, as the returned Jesus is known in ...