Jesus’s disciples are Jewish, too — including a feisty Galilean fisherman named Simon, one of Jesus’s earliest converts, played by Israeli-born actor Shahar Isaac.

In the latest episode, the truth involves the nearly unavoidable conflict in Christian-Jewish relationships. It’s hard to look away.

Film & TV The 18 most Jewish episodes of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Larry David’s HBO show, about to air its 12th and final season, has a lot to say about being Jewish ...

More recently, scholars have begun to emphasize Paul’s Jewish identity, challenging the long-standing notion that Paul was the law-hating, gentile-befriending apostle that many have taken him for.

Carrying the Light In John 8, Jesus tells his followers that he is the “light of the world.” When he spoke those words, his Jewish audience would have heard them like an alarm bell ringing.

One of the awful aftermaths of the first war with Rome was that Jews and Christians - or the followers of Jesus or the Jesus movement, as you might call it - took different directions.

In short, that Jesus was truly human, vere homo, displays God’s solidarity with us: he suffered our condition entirely, without qualification. That he was truly divine, vere Deus, means that this ...

COMMENTARY: In an age where antisemitism comes in many forms, Lent is a good time to reflect on the indisputable fact that Jesus of Nazareth was a son of the Jewish people.

According to the Jews for Jesus website, 30,000 to 125,000 Jews worldwide believe in Jesus. There are roughly 5 million to 6 million U.S. Jews.