(JTA) — The acting president of Columbia University reportedly recommended the ouster of a fellow trustee who is Jewish and separately endorsed the appointment of an “Arab on our board,” according to ...

The paradox behind recent conflicts is that the communities caught in the fray — Jews, Muslims and Christians — are ...

An evening exploring emotional well-being and remembering Lubavitch Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson is promised as author and ...

At present, philo-Semitism and Zionism are not among the top issues that interest and attract readers of fiction. But the Jewish issues that I am alluding to here are part of a larger problem. There ...

Philo of Alexandria, a Jewish philosopher influenced by Greek philosophy, wrote that the universe was created in line with unchangeable laws of nature. He described a world shaped not by chance, but ...

Historians and biblical scholars continue to debate why Pilate condemned Jesus. Was it for suggesting that he was the Messiah, or, in Pilate’s wording, “King of the Jews”?

The experiences of Jesus’ early followers help explain this shift. They, like Jesus himself, were Jewish, and they considered him a heaven-sent Messiah. But over the course of the first and second ...

Today, some of the most prominent scholars of antisemitism, Holocaust Studies, and Jewish history are putting themselves on the line and laying out a challenge for every college and university ...

(ANALYSIS) It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. But over the past 2,000 years, it was common for some ...

Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the Jewish ruler of Galilee – the region where Jesus grew up. Other texts from after the first few centuries A.D. said that Pilate became a Christian.

The experiences of Jesus’ early followers help explain this shift. They, like Jesus himself, were Jewish, and they considered him a heaven-sent Messiah. But over the course of the first and second ...