Shavuot is a deeply sacred time when we honor God’s gift of Torah, celebrating the wisdom, guidance, and divine teachings revealed to Israel at Sinai. Tonight, as a Christian honored to participate in ...

“The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ‘If you are the Son of God,’ he said, ‘throw yourself down from here. For it is written: “He will command his ...

Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to pray at the 11th and 12th ...

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

The question “Do Jews need Jesus?” returns in waves, usually when proselytism wants to look like pastoral care. Judaism is ...

In this article, Clive Lawton looks at Jesus and Christianity from his personal viewpoint as a Jew. My first encounter with Jesus was in primary school Nativity plays. Teachers desperately - kindly - ...

It’s not a bad way to sell a book: put “secret” in the title somewhere. And in light of Dan Brown’s success in selling books which are historical and theological nonsense but which claim to unlock age ...

Among my fellow Jews, there is much misinformation and “fake news” about the Jewish Jesus, starting with my deceased parents. During Christmas time, a few years before my mother passed, I told her ...

When most people think of modern painter Marc Chagall, they likely think of lovers flying through the sky and folkloric village scenes; scenes of suffering do not often come to mind. However, during ...