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The Scrolls Go Digital

Thanks to a two-year collaboration between the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google, the Dead Sea Scrolls are now online.The Six Commandments

If all of the Torah’s 613 commandments seem too much, relax: there are only six that a person must fulfill constantly to keep the evil inclination at bay.The Not-So-Magic Carpet Ride

Operation Magic Carpet, the airlift of 50,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel, has gone down in legend.  But the archives reveal that mismanagement cost hundreds of lives.The Road to Serfdom

Did Joseph rescue Egypt from disaster through government intervention, like a good Keynesian—or enslave an entire population to the State, like a good Keynesian?The Paper Brigade

When the Nazis occupied Vilna, they planned to destroy large numbers of Yiddish texts.  A group of Jewish scholars worked to save the books from destruction. The View from the Hudson

Cartoonist Saul Steinberg was a Romanian Jew, an escapee from Fascist Italy, and a man whose wry art helped define modern America.Amaziah’s Revenge

In the Book of Chronicles, 10,000 Edomite captives were “dashed to pieces” when King Amaziah threw them from a mountaintop.  Is es-Sela in Jordan the site of the slaughter?After Abbas

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a 77-year-old smoker with no official successor.  If he goes, the PA presidency passes to Aziz Dweik—and Hamas.