Mel Gibson’s forthcoming movie, “The Passion,” will dramatize the death of Jesus, portraying certain Jews of his day as morally culpable. It is already being denounced as antisemitic. From the ...
At the risk of being called the Grinch Who Stole Bethlehem, Paula Fredriksen states emphatically: Jesus was born in Nazareth, not the "little town" of the Christmas carol. "I can't think of any New ...
In this spectacular debut, historian Willetts surveys 350 years of influential international nightlife scenes. She begins with Yoshiwara, a pink-lit “flashy pleasure quarter” in Continue reading » ...