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I never really liked Passover when I was a kid. My parents held a seder (the traditional Passover meal) at our house every year with many close friends and family members, both Jews and Gentiles, everyone laughing and reading and eating – but not bringing any kids for my brother and…
Purim, one of the most festive celebrations, has a special place in the yearly cycle of Jewish religious life. The Scroll of Esther, which is read during Purim, is one of five megillot (scrolls)—along with Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Ruth and Song of Songs—that are publicly read at various Jewish festivals and observances…
Shalom from beautiful, sparkling, New York City! I don’t know about you, but the Hanukkah-Christmas season is my favorite time of year. For these few weeks, even the most Orthodox Jewish New Yorker or the most secular non-believer of any background cannot help but notice Jesus. You cannot walk…
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…
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…
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…
The Jewish people have been blamed for societal ills and subjected to harmful antisemitic myths for millennia while living as a distinct minority in exile from the Jewish homeland of Israel. These false narratives can be both religious and secular in nature and are invoked by those across the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…