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Every child in Israel eagerly awaits Hanukkah—and so do adults! How can anyone pass up a sufganiah—a soft, warm, jelly-filled donut? These donuts, traditional Hanukkah treats, are fried in oil in remembrance of how the Lord provided enough consecrated oil to keep the light shining in the Temple after it was…
God’s commandment to Israel in the Torah, “For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. You shall eat…
Every year, Jewish people gather in family dining rooms around the world to celebrate the Passover Seder and remember God’s redemption of Israel from slavery in Egypt. The Seder is designed to involve all five senses in the retelling of the Exodus story to the next generation. As we celebrate,…
Few verses in the New Testament have been more tragically misused than Matthew 27:25: “And all the people said, ‘His blood shall be on us and on our children!’” For centuries, this verse has been cited to accuse the Jewish people of deicide (the killing of God) and to justify…
As antisemitism increases rapidly around the globe and fuels acts of violence against the Jewish people, the world marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II and the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials. It is in this moment that Nuremberg—a timely film that confronts the evil of antisemitism…
The debate about Israel’s role in God’s plan has persisted for nearly two thousand years and shows no signs of ending. The main question is this: are there solid biblical reasons to believe that Israel still plays a significant part in the story of redemption? Or is it more accurate…
Since the founding of Islam fourteen centuries ago, Jewish people and Muslims have lived together and interacted in both harmonious and adverse ways. Most scholars of Jewish history, Islam, and the Middle East perceive a much harsher life for Jewish people under Christian Europe than among Muslim societies where they…
Introduction The Holocaust (“Shoah” in Hebrew) was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jewish people (including one million children) in German-occupied Europe from 1933 to 1945, and has greatly challenged the faith of Jewish people and Christians as well.1 The answer to the question “Why the Holocaust?”…
Antisemitism1 has emerged in countless ways throughout the ages and in a variety of places and societies around the globe. Ideologies and myths behind antisemitism contain polar extremes where Jewish people are seen as either running global finance and the media or as cowardly and disloyal citizens.2 The…
Can Social Media Platforms Restrain the Spread of Hate? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Antisemitism has been on the rise in most countries around the world in recent decades, aided by the onset of social media platforms, which have become a haven for expressing virtual anti-Jewish hate and a means to instigate or…
Supersessionism, also called replacement theology, is the idea within Christianity that the church has replaced the people of Israel (the Jewish people) as God’s chosen community. Consequently, the church appropriates Israel’s divine promises and blessings, abrogating any legitimacy of a distinct future for the Jewish people, and the land of…
In June 2024, protesters wrapped in keffiyehs and masks entered a subway car in New York City demanding Zionists get off the train. One man shouted, “Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist; this is your chance to get out.” Like robots, the mobs on the train repeated the words…