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Israel’s Pompeii

Under the Ottoman-era alleyways of Akko (Acre), a sleepy port city whose history dates back 4,500 years, archaeologists are uncovering an intact Crusader city.The Heights

U.S. and Israeli policy makers have yet to acknowledge that their decades-long push to trade the Golan Heights for a peace deal with Syria is and always was a far-fetched dream.Sharansky on Bonner

Andrei Sakharov was "the spirit" of Soviet dissident movement; his wife Elena Bonner, an ardent supporter of Israel who died on June 18, was "the energy and the warmth."Digging for Jerusalem’s Jewish Roots

The unveiling of a new complex of ruins from the period of King Solomon's Temple offers yet another rebuke to deniers of a Jewish presence in the capital city of biblical Israel.Against the Current

Circumcision is incompatible with advanced 21st-century values; so, to its credit, is much of Judaism. Korah: The Morning After

It is one of the most famous stories in the book of Numbers, yet we often miss the story behind the story. For it turns out that the rebellion of Korah, which features prominently in this week's reading, is really just a frontispiece for a far more interesting drama playing out in the background.The Palestinians of 1967

In eastern Jerusalem, more and more Arabs are taking out Israeli citizenship, first offered to them in 1967; others remain passive and conflicted. (With photographs.)Prayer Space

Archaeologists working in the eastern Galilee have unearthed three ancient synagogues, one of them, at Magdala, among the oldest ever found.What Dancing Leads To

In 1960, a controversy over mixed dancing in Orthodox synagogues erupted in the pages of the British Jewish press.