It is December, and things are ending. Students get their papers in and prep for finals. Retailers push for a sales rush to declare a good year. Our northern world grows darker, daylight shorter. The ...

This is Italian artist Domenico “Domenichino” Zampieri’s depiction of Moses talking to God in the Burning Bush and being assigned to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Zampieri lived from ...

The Burning Bush is one of the most iconic images in all of Scripture. In parshas Shemos, as Moses shepherds a flock of sheep in the wilderness, God speaks to him for the first time, appearing in the ...

Science, practiced with honesty and integrity, is a source of light and knowledge. Practicing it with honesty implies that when the same scientific method that led to so many technological ...

Shown here, slightly larger than actual size, is the top half of a narrative illumination of an episode in the life of Moses. Set within a rectangular border bearing a design in red and green, the ...

See a Magnum Photos gallery on Passover. The beginning of Passover on Monday night prompts an age-old question: Did the events recorded in Exodus actually occur? In 2009, Michael Lukas explored how ...