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The Melancholy Dane

Hamlet's soliloquy in Hebrew: a few early attempts.A Decade of Bigotry

A watchdog organization has revealed the virulently anti-Israel record of the influential London Review of Books—financed by the British taxpayer and Her Majesty's Government.Vayishlah: Face to Face

The Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon is said to have compared reading a text in translation to kissing a bride through her veil. This week's Torah portion affords a good opportunity to look at some of what we may be missing through the veil of translation.X-Access

Dramatic new methods have been developed to sort the thousands of still unidentified fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls without damage to the goatskin parchments.Going Kosher?

A forthcoming book challenges Reform Jews to develop a dietary practice based on such values as sustainability, morality—and, yes, kashrut.The Archeology Wars

Was the Jerusalem of David and Solomon a little cow town, or the capital of a glorious empire?Why is This Knight Different from All Other Knights?

At German Jewish weddings nearly a thousand years ago, jousting competitions were part of the entertainment. The Urban Hermitage

Once desert outposts, ancient monasteries or their uncovered remains are now part of Israel's urban and suburban landscape.Diplomat and Rescuer

Raoul Wallenberg saved more human beings from certain execution than anyone else in history. Alex Kershaw's The Envoy tells the story—including what happened when the diplomat met Adolf Eichmann face to face.