In his speech to Congress a few weeks ago, Bibi concluded with a quote from none other than Moses, the great leader of the Jews and hero of Passover. Indeed, many of his supporters might see him as a ...

Moses was the original Jewish political activist and lobbyist. He organized his thoughts and priorities, then went to the top powers to demand action. What’s more, God made it clear the choice of ...

"And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, 'God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here'" (Exodus 13:19). This ...

I attempt here to make sense of a fundamental yet often overlooked dimension of the exodus story: that it is premised on a ruse. In Ex 3:16-17, God tells Moses to convey to the Israelite elders that ...

The opening of the 10th chapter of Exodus, the beginning of this week’s Torah portion Bo, reads: "And G-d said to Moses: 'Come to Pharaoh, because I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his ...

Early in Parshat Bo, Moses and Pharaoh negotiate a departure for the Israelites to go worship the Eternal. Pharaoh accuses Moses of malicious intent, proclaiming, “See here, your evil intent is ...

Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...

Many people know of the story in the Book of Exodus about the confrontation between Moses and Pharaoh. At the beginning of the story, the Hebrew population becomes numerous and Pharaoh becomes uneasy ...

In his book “Assimilation versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel,” Aaron Wildavsky examines Joseph’s career. Wildavsky, who had a distinguished ...

(JTA) — Nearly every Easter and Passover season since 1973, Americans have tuned in to ABC to watch Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 sand-and-sandals epic “The Ten Commandments.” This year, Netflix picked the ...