Dreaming of a white Christmas?

If you're shopping for a nativity set this season, be sure to check out the Newsweek story on the historical protrayal of the Holy Family:

While we can never be exactly sure of what Jesus, Mary and Joseph actually looked like, we know they were not fair-skinned, flaxen-haired Europeans. And, though an emerging fringe of historians would argue otherwise, it’s fairly certain they weren’t black Africans. In all likelihood, what they were was something in between: olive-skinned, dark-featured Semitic Jews living in Israel.

Read the entire article here.