Will Costco Go to Israel?
What the finance minister’s invitation reveals.
February 7, 2023
A New Book Presents a Very Jewish—and Flawed—Perspective on the Death of Jesus
Sadducees, Pharisees, and the Messiah.
In his book The Messiah Confrontation, Israel Knohl of Hebrew University argues, firstly, for the Jewish origins of Christian ideas about the nature of the messiah and, secondly, that the execution of Jesus must be understood through the lens of the dispute between the two major Jewish sects of his time: the Pharisees and the Sadducees. John J. Collins explains how Knohl brings these two lines of though together:
February 7, 2023
A New Book Presents a Very Jewish—and Flawed—Perspective on the Death of Jesus
Sadducees, Pharisees, and the Messiah.
Arthur Szyk, the Fighting Artist of the Jews
His Haggadah was called one of “the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has ever produced.”
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Chaim Grade’s Archives Are Finally Available Online
A trove of Yiddish treasures.