Celebrity Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Canadian media personality Michael Coren have been trading blows following a heated interview on the latter’s news program. “The Arena” interview, taped Thursday, began as an amicable discussion of the Rabbi’s latest book, “Kosher Jesus,” but then degenerated into a shouting match about the depiction of Christians in Hollywood movies. One hour after the taping, Rabbi Boteach began writing about his experience on the show. His article, …More

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach expected backlash from the Christian community for his new book “Kosher Jesus.” After all, Boteach argues that Jesus was a devout Jew who would have rejected the Christian faith as blasphemous. Instead, the loudest objections have come from his fellow rabbis, who worry that the text may open Jews to Christian conversion. Toronto Rabbi Dr. Immanuel Schochet branded the book “heretical.” In a halachic opinion posted to an Orthodox news site, Schochet claimed that the …More

Ground-penetrating radar has uncovered mass graves, helping to prove that Treblinka was a death camp in addition to a transit camp during World War II. [The Jerusalem Post] Eliyahu Federman uses the recent dispute between Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and his Orthodox colleagues over “Kosher Jesus” to illustrate the dangers of hyperbolic religious metaphor in debate. [Huffington Post] A group of Israeli hackers nicknamed the IDF-Team crashed the Saudi Arabian and Abu Dhabi stock market websites Tuesday. …More