Bruce Chilton
By Bruce Chilton
-
Opinion Breaking Fast With a Hate-Monger
Iftar is a beautiful custom within the liturgical practice of Islam. During Ramadan, the month of fasting, sunset marks the time when food may be taken again. Families and communities offer meals for friends and neighbors, often inviting those who are not practicing Muslims to join with them in sharing special dishes. This can be…
-
Culture Exploring What Binds –– and Divides –– Jews and Christians
Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History By David Klinghoffer Doubleday, 256 pages, $24.95 — The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament’s Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book By Julie Galambush HarperSanFrancisco, 352 pages, $24.95. — In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the New Testament…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Sports First Puka Nacua, now Mookie Betts: Why do sports stars keep getting antisemitic around a Jewish streamer?
- 2
Culture Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas?
- 3
Culture We tried to fix Hallmark’s Hanukkah problem. Here’s the movie we made instead
- 4
Holy Ground One of America’s first Jewish farms was nearly lost to history. Now these Brooklyn parents are risking everything to keep their family’s legacy alive.
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture On Instagram, ‘Rabbinic Fit Check’ is a look book for Jewish clergy
-
Yiddish דראַמאַטישע פּאָעזיע: סוצקעװערס מעשׂיות לעבן אױף אױף דער ייִדישער בינעPoetry in drama: Sutzkever’s stories come alive on the stage
דער װאָקאַבולאַר אין די מעשׂיות ניצט אױס די פּאַליטרע פֿון דער קונסטוועלט, װילנער קאָלאָריט, ייִדישן לעבן און דער אונטערװעלט.
-
Culture Waiting on line on Christmas is a time-honored New York tradition — was it ever thus?
-
Fast Forward It’s not just a myth that Jews head to Chinese restaurants on Christmas. It’s science.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
