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David’s Tomb

Archeologists have long dismissed Raymond Weill's century-old hypothesis that tunnels in the City of David were the necropolis of the ancient kings.  But could Weill have been right?UN-happy Anniversary

A motion to recognize "Palestine" as an official observer at the UN will be introduced on the 65th anniversary of the UN partition plan creating Israel.  There the similarity ends.There Must Be an Angel

While angels often appear in Biblical narratives, medieval Jewish commentators could not agree about what they are—and what their nature means for the afterlife.Bye Bye Barak

Ehud Barak's surprise retirement from politics has not disappointed everyone.  But some commentators are already comparing him to another general-turned-politician, Moshe Dayan. Who Won the War?

Both Hamas and Israel gained from last week's war in Gaza.  But the real winner was Egypt, and the real loser was the PLO.Dumbing Down the Holocaust

Middlebrow fiction about the Holocaust not only reduces a serious subject to melodrama and kitsch but consigns the truly great literature to obscurity.French and Jewish or Jewish and French?

Jews have been a presence in provincial France since the Revolution, outlasting even Vichy and the German occupation. But now, increasing Islamic anti-Semitism is precipitating an exodus.The Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

Few American Jews know about world of the “crypto-Jews” described in this graphic novel.  But, as one character says, “A Jewish soul is a Jewish soul.”