Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

A living question mark: Protestants and Jews after Nostra Aetate It was the shortest Vatican II document but among the most influential. Whatever its limits, it was a watershed in Christian-Jewish ...

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 ...

A new study examines artifacts and features of the site that may be associated with Judaism, though researchers caution that ...

Archaeologists working at a site in Spain say they have uncovered evidence of what may have been a synagogue used by a ...

Around the time of the First Crusade in the 11th century, Jews began to suffer violent attacks, often influenced by Christian preachers; in some places entire communities of Jews were massacred.