Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by Senior Writer Benyamin Cohen. Theologian ...

Sign up for Antisemitism Decoded, the Forward’s guide through the news and noise about Jewish safety, brought to you biweekly by investigative journalist Arno ...

John Wesley (18th c., Methodists). An Anglican priest who insisted he was “no separatist.” Methodist societies were designed as renewal within Anglicanism; institutional realities—especially in ...

The one thing that does happen in the second revolt... is [that] the self-consciously apocalyptic and messianic identity of Bar Kochba forces the issue for the Christian tradition. It appears that ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from the ...

Jesus of Nazareth is perhaps the most significant individual in human history, and yet some skeptics and critics have questioned his existence. How much can we actually know about him beyond the ...

Clara Maria Goldstein approaches her portraits of Jesus with the loving eye of a mother attentive to detail and the practiced hand of an artist who has created more than 50 paintings in her Rabbi ...

Even if you have never heard of the Tony Award-winning “Jesus Christ Superstar” and every biblical reference in the show flies over your head, the Jewish Theatre Ensemble’s production of the musical ...

Ancient bronze coins dating to the 4th century A.D. were uncovered in a hiding complex at Hukok, a village located three miles from Capernaum, where Jesus preached.

Archaeologists in Israel recently found an ancient treasure hoard dating back more than 1,600 years – not far from where Jesus carried out much of his ministry. The coins were found at Hukok, a ...