What do you do on Dec. 25 if you don’t celebrate Christmas? For Jewish Americans, the answers range from takeout to filling a ...
What emerges in “Christmas in the Yiddish Tradition” is not a sentimental argument for reviving a lost holiday, nor a polemic ...
Engagement in serious, respectful conversation with other religious traditions is important and urgent. Leo Lefebure details why it’s also difficult. The Prodigal Son is often read to mean that God ...
A delegation of 1,000 U.S. Christian pastors arrives in Israel as part of a Friends of Zion initiative to train them as ...
(JTA) — For an energetic subset of supporters, the promise of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement centers on increasing the influence of Christianity in American life and returning the country to what they ...
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, ...
While I appreciate Andrew Doran’s efforts to raise awareness of anti-Semitism, his argument that “Christians Need to Confront Anti-Semitism” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 4) is outdated and deflects from ...
For decades, Americans United for Separation of Church and State called its adversaries “religious extremists.” Today, the group has a more specific target: fighting Christian nationalism. The ...
The anti-abortion rights movement is largely faith based. Catholics and evangelical Christians argue that life begins at conception, and that fetuses have souls. On those grounds, they want to prevent ...
“The worst deed of the Jewish people, the murder of the Messiah, resulted in the greatest blessings for mankind,” says a widely used Roman Catholic text book, reflecting what has been for centuries a ...