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Yom Kippur at Sea

A young Maine lobsterman takes time off on Yom Kippur to mend spiritual knots and refuel for the coming year. (2010)Declaring Death

In the 1960's, Israeli doctors began aggressively promoting the view that declaration of death was a purely medical matter. But it wasn't easy to enlist rabbis in their cause.Why Fast?

Expiation, corrective, a reflection of mood, or sensitization to the plight of the needy? Only one of these reasons has biblical support.Bad Bans

By banning bans on circumcision, California now drives the debate about this issue underground, where it will fester among the most hostile opponents of the practice.Paradise Regained

A literary encounter with Paradise Lost helped one graduate student access the poetry inherent in the Jewish idea of repentance.  Who Lived in Qumran?

An architectural analysis of the area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered supports the identification of the community as a Second Temple-era Jewish sect known as the Essenes. On Holyland Hill

Four thousand years ago, what is today the site of a housing project on the outskirts of Jerusalem was a Bronze Age graveyard serving the villages in the valley below. A Palestinian Moderate Speaks

Even Sari Nusseibeh, the worldly and well-respected intellectual and peace activist, cannot bring himself to accept the reality of Israel as the Jewish state.