In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

Standing before an embroidered Star of David and a seven-branched menorah (candlestick). David Bronstein faced his congregation and began: “This is Hanukah week, as we all know. And we all know that ...

This decade’s spirit of ecumenism, until now limited to cooperation among Christians, is reaching out to Jews as well. Building on the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Non-Christian Religions ...

This program was offered in conjunction with the development of "Explore Psalms Teaching and Learning Resources" hosted at Hebrew College. Calling Out From the Depths is part of a larger project ...

This is a sobering book. It says that a lot of Christians professing pluralistic openness to Jews and contemporary Judaism are perhaps more interested in alleviating their guilt than anything else, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lots of families wrestle with how – and whether – to celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas. Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press ...

(The Jewish Chronicle via JTA) — There are so many things to love about the new Netflix film “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” that it seems almost churlish to single out the one big thing ...