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For a Failing Kibbutz, Strange New Life

A collective settlement in financial receivership finds a Conservative rabbi, and its dreams revive.Abayudaya

A rare photographic look at a small Jewish community in Uganda, also profiled in Commentary by Irwin M. Berg.The End of Days?

According to a new book, messianism has been central to the Chabad movement since its origins; the most recent Rebbe just reworked it in a modern key.What Would Sharon Do?

On the personal and professional makeup of the former Israeli premier who has now entered his fifth year of coma. Iran’s Righteous Martyrs

The crackdown on dissent has created a new class of martyrs in the best—and most subversive—Shiite tradition.What (and Who) is the London Review of Books?

On a darkly influential magazine and its editor-proprietor.A Rare Chagall

In a coup, a small Jewish museum in London recently purchased a previously unknown work by the master.  Going Down to Egypt

In an instance of a burgeoning pilgrimage culture, hundreds flock to Egypt from Israel and France for the hilula (yahrzeit) of a 19th-century Moroccan rabbi.The Meaning of the Temple Esplanade

A new volume, Where Heaven and Earth Meet, a rare collaborative effort by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars, offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the history and significance of a fraught sacred place.Backward from Authenticity

To a hip pseudonymous blogger, the idea that authentic Jewishness is always and only about the personal is both untrue and unhip.