The appearance of baby Jesus in a kaffiyeh in the Vatican is a sad, ironic reminder of the glory of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), during which Pope John XXIII exonerated the Jewish ...

In gratitude, the sages decreed that the Jewish firstborn at that time be named Alexander ... temporary – was mostly forbidden. Birthday of Jesus (Yehoshua ben Yosef), a Galilean Jew whose ...

This week, as Christendom celebrated what it dearly believed to be the 1,943rd anniversary of the birth of Jesus ... of the Jews gave their friends Christmas presents, told their children about ...

These family tombs with branching chambers, which had been hewn out of soft limestone, belong to the Jewish cemetery of Jesus' time that extends ... Three children, ranging in ages from eight ...

and the belief that He died around the same time that He was conceived. As stated in the Gospels (cf. John 19), the crucifixion of Jesus coincided with the Jewish Feast of Passover (day 14 of the ...