IN a small village, an elderly woman was sweeping her yard when three men came, dressed in what looked like yards and yards ...

In a year when Israel was at war, a US Presidential election found Jews on both sides of the political divide, and rising ...

From December 25 to January 6, there became a 12-day period from the one major celebration to the next major observance. Thus ...

He ordered the Torah defiled with the blood of pigs and commanded “that the lamp, which they call undying and which burns continually in the temple, should be extinguished.” At the climax of the ...

Every Christmas season, as in every Easter season, I retreat from bread and butter life, including revelry, to retreat as ...

Jesus claimed to have come from God and, unlike other humans, knew exactly where he was before being conceived.

For me, as an Iranian Christian coming from an Islamic background, Christmas and also Hanukkah have special and deep meanings ...

Jesus claimed to have come from God and, unlike other humans, knew exactly where he was before being conceived.

TO say otherwise is a perverse form of historical revisionism. To wish otherwise is to wish for a counterfactual. Facts have ...

I am reposting here my annual collection of resources on the Epiphany, the visit of the magi to the young Jesus, as recorded ...

First, Stephen explicitly associates his death with Christ’s, repeating two of Jesus’ own words from the cross. He asks that ...