If Jesus had come to Easton on the Sunday before Thanksgiving this year, he’d have gone to Bnai Abraham Synagogue, where he’d probably have been startled to hear the Gospel Choir of Shiloh Baptist ...

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 ...

It seems obvious to note that Jesus — like Don Juan, Oedipus and Count Dracula — has a cultural life having little to do with his original narrative. Although it is now widely believed that he did ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past Sunday, the Web-based culture organization Nextbook sponsored a daylong New York conference devoted to a subject not often explored in Jewish circles: the life and legacy of Jesus Christ.

Author’s Note: Interested readers can find all previous volumes of this series here. Our Bible study this Christmas Sunday concludes the “reason for the season” mini-series. We began with “Why Simeon ...

Even if you have never heard of the Tony Award-winning “Jesus Christ Superstar” and every biblical reference in the show flies over your head, the Jewish Theatre Ensemble’s production of the musical ...

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 ...