Judaism
When Judaism became Judaism
Archaeologist Yonatan Adler argues that widespread, ordinary observance of the Torah did not take place until the Hellenistic period.
Learning from the Passover Seder without co-opting it
What wisdom can Christians find in Jesus’ meal-gathering around a religious holiday of his people?
by Michael Fick
Reconciliation or supersessionism?
Karma Ben-Johanan traces the troubled history
of Jewish-Christian relations after Vatican II.
by Jon Sweeney
Giving women a voice at the seder table
Poet and liturgist Marcia Falk attempts to correct the gender bias of the traditional Passover Haggadah.
The value of jokes in Jewish-Christian dialogue
Have you heard the one about the priest, the minister, and the rabbi?
In America, Jesus is Black because he was Jewish
As James Cone argued, the universal is revealed in the particular.
by Brad East
Judaism for the World is the work of a master
Readers will relish the collected thoughts of Arthur Green, a historian and practitioner at the top of his powers.
Whose religious freedom is at stake with Texas’s new abortion law?
Some rabbis are claiming that SB 8 violates the obligations of their faith.
Rachel Gross wants to blur the distinction between Jewish culture and Jewish religion
Being Jewish goes beyond the synagogue.
by Jon Sweeney
The Martin Buber book I carried around while my marriage failed
Tales of the Hasidim was an unlikely companion.
by Jon Sweeney
Christians have struggled to understand Judaism on its own terms
John Phelan’s book helps us unlearn what we thought we knew.
by David Heim
Standing in the remains of the death camps in Poland
I was outraged. I wanted to burn it all down. I wanted to pray.
by Jane Charney
The many varieties of anti-Semitism
Deborah Lipstadt shows how anti-Semitic sentiment can spring up where we least expect it.
by David Heim
An Israeli writer’s final word to his fellow citizens
Amos Oz feared that fanaticism was rising in Israel as well as in the West.
by Emily Soloff
A DNA test and its aftermath
Even as a child, Dani Shapiro wondered whether she belonged in her family.
Jesus’ earliest followers were Jewish, too
Paula Fredriksen challenges popular assumptions about the first generation of Christians.