For many Jews, the sacred texts are very special, so a great deal of respect is shown towards them. The Torah refers to the first five books of Moses. Judaism teaches that God dictated the Torah ...

Judaism is not about elitism. It is, and has always been, about love: love expressed not in sentiment alone, but in the ...

Israelite religion has sacred interpreters, but it's only Judaism that has sacred interpreters, sages, studying a sacred text. And the sacred text is meant to be the property of the entire community.

"While Judaism today is more decentralized and egalitarian than ever, it also raises new questions that our generation must ...

We have texts from ribald Yiddish joke books to the most sacred texts. All of it represents the richness of Jewish life in the Diaspora. A letter from a water carrier is every bit as important as ...

Davis has been awarded a grant from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Confraternity of Christian Doctrine to develop a curriculum for a course in Jewish-Christian learning based on the ...

Qumran, the guides say, was home to a community of Jewish ascetics called the Essenes, who devoted their lives to writing and preserving sacred texts. They were hard at work by the time Jesus ...

According to Massie, "the text should have clearly stated that Judaism is ... What we are advocating in A Sacred Obligation is a pro-Jewish expression of Christian faith, one that affirms Christianity ...