After God reassures Moses that God will be with him, the prophet learns that he will also have his brother Aaron by his side, ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish perspective on the choosing of Moses and the women who ...

After much hesitation, Moses faces his fears and accepts God’s mission. He stutters as he stands in Pharaoh’s palace. But ...

Moses, after being so afraid that he hides, somehow turns it around. So much so that he goes on to argue with God about the ...

The Passover he initiated at God’s behest, focused on the blood of a sacrificial lamb saving them from divine judgment, was a ...

The midrash portrays this as a flaw. Redemption, it claims, comes because of the merit of the patriarchs—not because of Moses ...

Joseph was remembered … until he was remembered as Joseph the Jew. Pharaoh did not say, “I hate Jews”; he said, “I don’t know ...

“I have heard the wail of the Israelites whom the Egyptians have enslaved and I remembered my covenant.” This is God’s ...

The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World provides a history of the interpretations of each of the 10 plagues in ...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration featured Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Chuck Schumer, actor Mandy Patinkin and other Jews ...

The arson suspect spoke of ‘the synagogue of Satan,’ according to an affidavit. The phrase draws on a very old, hateful ...

As we enter a new year, the noise of public life grows louder, commentary layered over outrage, opinion edged with mockery, ...