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What Jews Should Know about the New Testament

By reading the New Testament in its historical contexts, Jews can better comprehend not only Christianity's polemics, but its point of departure from Judaism.Learn Hebrew!

The cultural gulf between Israel and the Diaspora can be bridged—but only if American Jews decide they want to bridge it.“We have a long list”

The Shiddukh Crisis, ca. 1934.And Justice for All

While Shmuly Yanklowitz's writing is uneven and his scholarship is suspect, his activist agenda is built on classical Judaism.The Carp in the Bathtub

In the Brooklyn of the writer's youth, they didn't know from ahi tuna, but carp made good pets—and great gefilte fish, too.Prayers and Poems

Poetry and prayer have been allied traditions from the beginning.The Life of Faith

Jews and Catholics, having experienced bigotry themselves, should cooperate to keep religious prejudice from entering the U.S. presidential campaign. (Video interview by Bob Schieffer)George Jessel

On the rumor that the comedian might be appointed ambassador to Israel: "I think if they did, I'd make a very good ambassador." (Video; 1957)Kirk Douglas

"I am not even aware whether or not we have former Nazi officers in our production. Very honestly, I wouldn't even allow myself to think in those terms . . . I like to feel that the War is over." (Video; 1957)Abba Eban

Arnold Toynbee, says Eban, "takes the massacre of millions of our men, women and children" and "compares it to the plight of Arab refugees alive, on their kindred soil, suffering certain anguish, but of course possessed of the supreme gift of life. This equation . . . is, I think, a distortion of any historic perspective." (Video; 1958)