A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

The debate about the central meaning of Tisha b’Av goes back more than 1500 years to a debate between Rabbi Judah who said Ei’khah can only mean (learning from) prophetic reproof, and Rabbi Nehemiah ...

Harvard University is raising eyebrows for its decision to appoint a “counter-Zionist” as the divinity school’s first Professor of Modern Jewish Studies in Residence — a role that the school created ...

In Jesus’ day, Jewish religious leaders held different beliefs about hell and the afterlife, particularly the two main schools of Judaism, the Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees believed in the ...

According to Flavius Josephus, a Roman-Jewish historian, the Pharisees numbered around 6,000 in 70 CE, a portion taking flight to Babylon. “Once again, the Jews were under the protection of the ...

Pope Francis’ legacy regarding the Jewish world is something of a polyhedron — an image he liked to evoke. His pontificate, marked by contrasting interactions and events with the international ...

Though the script for Dreyer’s film, by playwright Edgard Høyer, was actually written in 1913, Leaves from Satan’s Book is often seen as a response to Griffith’s work. In both films, the Biblical-era ...

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, rebuke your disciples!’ ‘I tell you,’ he replied, ‘if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out’” (Luke 19:38-40).

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Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7). Consider these five traits of a modern-day Pharisee. I am using the term in a broad sense to include anyone, ...

Carter was not simply a modern-day anti-Zionist—an ignorant idealogue who wrongly believed that Israeli counter-terrorism policies harmed the “human rights” of the Palestinian people. Carter was ...