Posts Tagged: Christianity
New Pope Calls for Continued ‘Precious Dialogue’ Between Jews and Catholics
On Monday, Pope Leo XIV met with Jewish leaders and other representatives from the world’s religious traditions to nourish continued interfaith bridge-building. Echoing a letter he...
‘Am Yisrael Chai!’: Jews, Christians Come Together for Zionist Solidarity Event
Sterling, Virginia — Christians and Jews across the United States participated last weekend in an ambitious effort launched by the Moral Hearts Alliance (MHA) nonprofit...
Irish School Textbooks Disparage Judaism, Defame Israel, Watchdog Finds
School textbooks in Ireland foster antisemitic hatred, downplaying the horrors of the Holocaust and portraying Israel as the obstructive party in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according...
Persecution of Christians in Iran, Part Two
This is Part 2 of an article, the first of which appeared yesterday. Historical Christian communities and converts in Iran Iran's Christian and other minority religious communities...
Muslim Women Spread Christmas Cheer in Gaza
Muslim women in the Palestinian Gaza Strip have been hand-crafting gifts for the approaching Orthodox Christmas as part of a project to empower a traditional...
The War Against Christians
JNS.org - Grinch that I am, in the days leading up to Christmas I immersed myself in The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of its Christian...
Is the New Testament Antisemitic?
The debate I’ll be holding this Thursday in New York City with my friend and public antagonist Dr. Michael Brown has stirred considerable controversy, both...
Smells Like Heaven: Israeli Farm Recreates Magi’s Gifts to Jesus
The aromatic plants bestowed on the infant Jesus are being cultivated by an Israeli entrepreneur who aims to transform the gifts of the Christmas story...
The UNSC Resolution 2334 Boomerang Effect
In 70 CE, the Romans expelled the Jews from the land of Israel, destroyed Jerusalem and burned the holy Temple to the ground. Although 2 million...
Who Founded Christianity? The Answer Might Surprise You
Nowhere in the New Testament does Jesus or Paul say that he is rejecting Judaism and starting a new religion. In fact, the term “Christian” doesn’t...
The Transformation of the Virgin Mary: How a Jewish Girl From Nazareth Became a Christian Icon
The four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, provide skimpy biographies of Jesus, with huge time gaps. We meet Jesus in brief citations as a newborn, a six-year-old in...
Why Christians Should Celebrate Passover
The Passover holiday commemorates the exodus of Jews from slavery in Egypt. It is a celebration of freedom. On this basis alone, Christians should join...
Israel Credited With Saving Jerusalem’s ‘Tomb of Jesus,’ Causing Rival Christian Groups to Unite in Its Repair
The Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem is crediting Israel with saving a holy Christian site, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. According to the report, the shrine around what...
New Findings About Jews and Judaism Revealed in the New Testament (INTERVIEW)
It is well known that Christianity sprang from a Jewish context. While there may be controversy about Jesus' Judaism vs. the traditional Judaism of the...
