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 ...

This discussion has aired some really interesting differences of opinion. As Larry has a delightfully direct way of expressing disagreements, most of my remarks will be directed to him. I think we all ...

James I presiding over the courts held in Tortosa in 1225 (Llibre Verd of Barcelona). In 1263, King James I of Aragon ordered a public disputation between Christians and Jews: Was Jesus of Nazareth ...

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 ...

According to Harnack, the essence of Christianity is Jesus’ preaching of the Father. The Son had no place in the Gospel as Jesus preached it. This “liberal” construction of the Gospel which Jesus ...

(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 ...