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A Love Letter from God

"In giving the Torah to Israel, God was not asserting His power, dominance or lordship over Israel.  He was declaring His love."Children of the Revelation

From equality to heresy via dueling mountains, here is your guide to Revelation at Sinai and its aftermath. (E-book)Where Worlds Collide

"At Sinai—the Torah tells us—'God descended upon the mountain.'  From this point on, man would be able to enjoy a direct relationship with the essentiality of the divine self."The Theology of Cheesecake

"It is anything but trivial to turn eating cheesecake into a religious experience, it is an example of the Jewish genius."Burial Rights and Wrongs

Should Tamerlan Tsarnaev, co-perpetrator of the Boston bombings, have been buried?  Jewish law extends burial rights even to the worst criminals and the most ardent enemies of God.Eichmann’s Jews

A new history of the Viennese Jews forced to co-operate with Adolf Eichmann argues that Benjamin Murmelstein, long vilified as collaborator, tried to save Jewish lives wherever possible.Interfaith Monologue

The Church of Scotland's report questioning Israel's right to exist read "as if there had been no Jewish-Christian dialogue since the Second World War."Next Year in Brooklyn

"Should Damascus fall, as many of us believe it will, there remains the very real possibility that there will soon be no trace of a Jewish past in Syria at all."Beyond Emancipation

"Mendelssohn insisted that the Haskalah, the Jewish enlightenment of the 18th century, was about the education and advancement of Jews, not about saving humanity from their allegedly noxious influence."Remembering Geza Vermes

An authority on the early history of both Judaism and Christianity, Geza Vermes, who passed away this week, translated the Dead Sea Scrolls and revolutionized the academic study of Jesus.