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Toward a Better Text

Thanks to the Dead Sea Scrolls, some longstanding mysteries of the Hebrew Bible have been resolved.Cheerleaders in the Holy City

Pushing for modest dress, an unusual combination of Orthodox and feminist groups scores with a Jerusalem basketball team.A Dead-End Policy

A veteran adviser has lost his faith in the rigid dogmas of the American-led "peace process."Herman Wouk Remembers

At ninety-four, the best-selling author has published a compact philosophical autobiography that, among other things, attempts to reconcile religion and science.Let the Palestinians Declare Statehood

With no prospect of an agreement in sight, the unilateral formation of a state would help to normalize the dispute.From the Four Winds

Through the eyes of two different immigrant families in 1950s Israel, the novelist Haim Sabato has written a profoundly moving meditation on Judaism and Jewish history.God’s Country

Living in the land of Israel, in the judgment of the great medieval commentator Nahmanides, is "equal in importance to all the commandments." An essay from 1968. Baseball, Football, and Abraham Joshua Heschel

An inquiry, against the background of the Sabbath, into George Carlin's comic routine on the divide between the two great American games.