Yitro, this week’s Torah portion, has a lot to say about qualifications for public officials — namely, trustworthiness and ...

Meyers: The Moses of the Bible is larger than life ... found in the middle of the book of Exodus [Exod 15:1-22]. This victory hymn probably dates to the 12th century B.C.E. It's also important ...

Chapter Two of the biblical Book of Exodus compresses into a mere five paragraphs the extraordinary story of Moses the Israelite boy born into a slave family who becomes the prince of Egypt and then a ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...

Most versions of the story of Moses agree that he was not forgiving to those who abandoned God to worship an idol, and according to the Book of Exodus, about 3,000 people were killed for this crime.

The Book of Exodus in the Old Testament is one of the holy texts in the Jewish and Christian religions, recounting the story of the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt, then the birth of Moses ...

[Exodus 2:11] Moses was probably the first Jew raised in ... oppression of Jews required their collaboration. History books term the end of the 18th Century as the age of Jewish emancipation.

In an age riven by ethnic and religious conflict, the message of the Torah rings true in our time. To be free, you have to ...

The Book of Exodus begins with an arresting Prologue. Like all classics, it begins much before the beginning. Kunjootty’s Valiyammachi, grandmother, is telling her grandchild the story of a fire ...

How does the choreography come about? Moses’ supporters make him comfortable. They place a rock underneath him [iv] and allow ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...