Some Chicagoans came to appreciate “Messiah” as a piece of music with appeal that extended beyond its Christian themes.
Father Tom Hartman and I created an annual winter custom that sharpened our interfaith instincts. Tommy wrote the Hanukkah ...
Attebury mentioned King’s book “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s ‘Messiah,’” and his ...
Why “Home Alone” star Daniel Stern won't be celebrating the movie's 35th anniversary in person Reporter's notebook: House ...
In a series of four lectures, Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel has been opining on the Antichrist. Thiel’s amateur riffing identifies the Antichrist with anyone or any institution that he ...
The Jewish concept of the Messiah is first described by the Hebrew prophets, particularly the prophet Isaiah. In general, it was believed that the Messiah would be a descendant of David. It was also ...
It is hard to be an optimist these days. Wars rage without resolution, terrorism strikes without warning, political discourse grows increasingly toxic, and natural disasters remind us of our fragility ...
Recently, I began to scratch the surface of a story that goes back to the very basement of time: the story of the Jewish people. Since the idea of “history” is defined by Oxford as “the whole series ...
“A man who has no wife lives without joy, blessing and good,” says the Talmud. Amram Blau might also add: “But be careful of the wife you pick.” A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a ...
For the 53rd year running, Messiah University’s campus near Mechanicsburg was the site of the annual gathering of Messianic Jews, a small but influential group that embraces a vein of Christianity ...