Dear Rabbi Gellman: I am a practicing Roman Catholic and I have many wonderful Jewish friends. My DNA shows that I am 2% Ashkenazi (European) Jewish. I honor and empathize with the Jewish culture and ...

This discussion has aired some really interesting differences of opinion. As Larry has a delightfully direct way of expressing disagreements, most of my remarks will be directed to him. I think we all ...

I recently picked up a book that's been getting a lot of buzz - "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" by Reza Aslan, a Muslim religion author and teacher of creative writing. I quickly ...

(RNS) — Netflix’s new series about the return of Jesus to contemporary times is good television but bad theology. In the streaming service’s “Messiah,” al-Masih, as the returned Jesus is known in ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

Mehdi Dehbi knows that people will probably compare him to Jesus when they see him in “Messiah,” out Jan. 1 on Netflix. In the 10-episode drama series, Dehbi stars as Al-Massih, a mysterious man who ...

Netflix’s new original series Messiah is a psychological thriller that asks the audience to wonder what it would be like if the second coming of Christ wasn’t just real but happening today and being ...

TEHERAN, IRAN — Two years before Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Christ” drew filmgoers throughout the Mideast, Islamic documaker Nader Talebzadeh decided the time had come to tell the story of Jesus ...