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Who Killed Jesus?

In a forthcoming book, the legal scholar Joseph Weiler argues that, in the events surrounding the death of Jesus, Jews were acting out their biblically mandated part in a divine drama of obedience.Lies, Damned Lies, and Communal Statistics

How an anti-Semitic comment fueled the first great census of New York Jews and inspired a venerable tradition.Under the Old City

A 2,000-year-old drainage channel underneath the Western Wall plaza dramatically enriches the picture of Jerusalem in the period of the Second Temple. Mishpatim: Hebrew Slaves and their Masters

"Should you purchase a Hebrew slave [eved ivri], he shall labor for six years and go free, gratis, in the seventh." This week's portion commences with a topic that is of poignant and almost eerie pertinence in this period of upheaval caused by economic straits, when many Jews have increasingly been compelled to depend on communal and philanthropic welfare. How does a Jew become a slave? And can another Jew become a slave master?A Dangerous Game

As their citizens demand civil rights, leaders of Arab regimes distract them by igniting anti-Semitic rhetoric.The Resistance in Lebanon

With Hizballah's power grab, the mantle of resistance moves to the March 14 movement that won Lebanon's elections. But will they resist, and will the U.S. back them?Al-Jazeera’s Show Trial

The "Palestine Papers" seem designed to deprive the West Bank leadership of what is left of its credibility; they may succeed.Learning from Reynolds Price

Why can't American Jewish writers give as much serious and deep thought to their religion as the late novelist, a self-declared "outlaw Christian," gave to his?On the Brink

In Lebanon, the West stumbles along the precipice of a slow-motion defeat, whose tremors will be felt in the Israel-Arab dispute and across the region.