Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two thousand years ago, Jews were divided between competing sects all based on the Jewish scriptures, but with different ...

Messianic Judaism is a Christian movement that blends Jewish practices with belief in Jesus. Many believe the movement is an antisemitic facade.

Theologian Edward Kessler, in his 2005 book A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, defines Messianic Judaism as a religious movement consisting of both Jews and non-Jews who follow traditional ...

A new study reveals how the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism influenced early Judaism during the Achaemenid Empire.

At this time of the year, the portions we read from the Torah center on the uniqueness of the Israelites by emphasizing God’s hopes for them and reiterating the specific practices they have been ...

Tzvi Novick begins his new book with the three maxims for interreligious dialogue that were famously taught by Krister Stendahl, bishop of the Church of Sweden in the 1980s. Authentic dialogue, he ...

Every seven years, in ancient times, Jewish men, women, and children would gather at the Temple on the first day of Sukkot to hear the king of Jerusalem read aloud from the Torah. In 2022, there’s no ...

(JTA) — “What the son wishes to forget the grandson wishes to remember.” That’s known as Hansen’s Law, named for the historian Marcus Lee Hansen, who observed that while the children of immigrants ...