The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

It is important in our times to understand the history and use of terms such as Zionism, Israel and the Jews, and how or if ...

The Qur’an is a text composed in early Arabic, whose reading is even more challenging than that of the Hebrew Bible or the ...

Interestingly, the idea that the Jews killed Jesus is also found in Jewish religious literature. In tractate Sanhedrin of the Babylonian Talmud, on folio 43a, a beraita (a teaching from before the ...

As Fine writes of Beruria, a learned woman portrayed positively in the Talmud but negatively in later explications ... This review appears in the May 2025 issue. Jesus conquers death so he can come ...

In the centuries following Jesus’ death, the rabbis taught that the souls of the dead would be resurrected after the Messiah appeared on earth. By the 500s C.E. or so, the rabbis further elaborated ...

As Catholic cardinals gather for a conclave to elect the next pope, we must all ask: Why are they all wearing red yarmulkes?