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David's Tomb , Bible History Daily. 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?

Judaism's Golden Plate Lawrence Schiffman, LawrenceSchiffman.com. For a committed Jew to hold this item in his hands concretizes millennia of Jewish faith.  But it also raises questions about the history of monotheism and the permeability of culture. 

The Egyptologist Matti Friedman, Times of Israel. Flinders Petrie willed his head (“as a specimen of a typical British skull”) to London’s Royal College of Surgeons, and when he died in 1942, the doctors in Jerusalem duly cut it off and prepared it for shipping . . . 

When Jews Opt for Cremation Josh Nathan-Kazis, Forward. Despite the prohibition on cremation in Jewish law, and despite the tradition of burial, dating back to Abraham buying the land for Sarah’s grave, ever more Jews are choosing to return to ashes.