Twenty-four years ago this week, I was in Jerusalem to cover Pope John Paul II’s epic pilgrimage to the Holy Land for NBC. After going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to pray at the 11th and 12th ...

Aaron Abramson served in the Israeli Defense Forces before abandoning his faith and wandering the world in search of meaning.

Among my fellow Jews, there is much misinformation and “fake news” about the Jewish Jesus, starting with my deceased parents. During Christmas time, a few years before my mother passed, I told her ...

The question “Do Jews need Jesus?” returns in waves, usually when proselytism wants to look like pastoral care. Judaism is ...

For many Jews, invoking Jesus at all raises understandable historical and theological discomfort. That discomfort is not ...

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