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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. Telling Their Own Stories

A collection of Jewish folktales from Arab lands sheds light on the particularities, and the universality, of the genre.I Married a Jew

In 1939, a German-American woman was moved "to tell the world how it really is between a Christian and a Jew, since the world is evidently so intensely interested."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.No Human Rights for Jews?

Speaking in May 2009 to the Freedom Forum in Oslo, the indomitable Elena Bonner, who has died at eighty-eight, denounced the blatant anti-Semitism of her fellow human-rights activists.The Tombs Speak

At the Roman-era burial site of Beit Sh'arim, messages in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, incised into stone coffins, reflect the inner world of an ancient Jewish community.