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On the day of their conversion at a synagogue in a suburb of Phoenix last month, Cortes, 53, said he regretted his prior association with the Messianic movement.

"It is quite possible that there is no group today more responsible for conversion to Judaism than Jews for Jesus, than the Messianic movement."

The most obvious reason why a good Jew thinks often about the Roman Empire is, of course, historical trauma.

From the blog of Kenneth Cohen at The Times of Israel

(JNS) — Israeli archeologists have discovered an ancient workshop for the manufacture of stone utensils just outside Jerusalem, the Civil Administration’s Archaeology Unit announced on Monday. The workshop, which experts said dates back to the Second Temple period (516 BCE-70 C.E.), was discovered along Road 437 between Geva Binyamin/Adam and Kfar Hizma, north of the […]

An ancient inscription paraphrasing the first two verses of Psalm 86 has been uncovered at a remote site in Israel's Judean desert, archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said Wednesday.

From the blog of Susannah Schild at The Times of Israel

(JTA) — How often do men think about the Roman Empire? It’s a question that’s been hard to avoid lately, after a woman on TikTok asked it of her husband

Neilah, in Judaism, the last of the five Yom Kippur services. As the concluding rite of Yom Kippur, the service is the most sacred of the yearly liturgy and is expressed in melodies of great solemnity. When the shofar (ritual ram’s horn) sounds at the close of the neilah, the synagogue service

Jewish festivals, holidays commonly observed by the Jewish community. Below is a summary of the major Jewish holidays, which traditionally begin at sunset on the previous evening. For fuller treatment of the Jewish calendar and its cycle of Jewish religious observance, see Jewish religious year.