There are deeper, underlying commonalities that join the two holidays.

Purim and Mardi Gras serve, paradoxically, as a farcical introduction to a period of deep religious seriousness.

Christmas and Hanukkah share much more than the giving of gifts.

The G-d who unleashes such overwhelming destruction is the very same G-d who can give us strength to endure it.

Who is God? How do we build our relationship with God?

Rabbi Polish: "For the church to understand Judaism is to understand a part of itself."

Rabbi Daniel Polish he topsy-turvy world of Psalm 118

How do we find happiness? The answer to this question is very much a scriptural one, though we do not usually think of the Bible as concerned with happiness. We imagine it to be devoted to a whole different set of issues. And yet happiness—our happiness—is very much a part of what the Bi

What Christians should know about Jewish identity

The events of the Seder and the form and meaning of Passover can be a very real part of the events of Holy Week and of the central story of the Christian tradition.