A Jewish look at Christmas Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism share common origins in late Second Temple Judaism. Jesus, along with his disciples, was a Jew who observed the biblical commandments in the Torah. According to the Gospel accounts, particularly the Synoptic Gospels, his actions and teachings were based on the same scriptural sources as those studied by the rabbis. The texts regarded as sacred by Jesus and his disciples were also considered sacred by the rabbis. Bot

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, I didn’t need to travel to Rome to feel...