Dear Rabbi Gellman: I am a practicing Roman Catholic and I have many wonderful Jewish friends. My DNA shows that I am 2% Ashkenazi (European) Jewish. I honor and empathize with the Jewish culture and ...

This discussion has aired some really interesting differences of opinion. As Larry has a delightfully direct way of expressing disagreements, most of my remarks will be directed to him. I think we all ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

(RNS) — Netflix’s new series about the return of Jesus to contemporary times is good television but bad theology. In the streaming service’s “Messiah,” al-Masih, as the returned Jesus is known in ...

Pope Benedict writes nothing new in Jesus of Nazareth: Part 2 when he states that the Jewish people are not collectively responsible for Jesus’ death. Readers will be pardoned if they think otherwise, ...

Messiah is an entertaining 10-episode journey that puts the onus of deciding the truth—whether al-Masih is the returned Messiah or an expert-level con man—directly on the viewer. But the dialogue ...

Mehdi Dehbi knows that people will probably compare him to Jesus when they see him in “Messiah,” out Jan. 1 on Netflix. In the 10-episode drama series, Dehbi stars as Al-Massih, a mysterious man who ...

Jim Caviezel may not be about to reprise his role in Mel Gibson’s Jesus sequel The Resurrection of the Christ, but he is ...

The release of Messiah may still be a few days away on Netflix, but already the show is generating controversy across the world, with a Change.org petition signed by over 4,000 people calling the ...

We usually think of St. John the Baptist as an Advent figure but here he is, in today’s Gospel, doing what he always does: pointing to Christ. The first weeks in Ordinary Time each year are usually ...