Balaam wants so badly to hurt the Israelites that he tries three times and fails spectacularly each and every time.

By any measure, the results have been prodigious. Iran’s nuclear ambitions are delayed. Senior IRGC commanders are dead. Key ...

In the Bible, the Israelites build the golden calf while Moses is on Mount Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments. In the movie, the scene is more intense and includes a confrontation between Moses ...

It opens with Moses delivering the Ten Commandments amidst the Israelites’ rebellion, depicting the golden calf incident and Moses’ destruction of the tablets in anger.

For a short time on Wednesday, a large golden calf resembling Former President Donald Trump appeared in the National Mall.

Before the golden calf was created, the Jews could find G-d within the wholesomeness of the tablets, within the spiritual wholesomeness of life.

The Golden Calf, in other words, is the anti-Akedah. In case the parallels are still in doubt, Moses’ prayer makes the connection explicit. “Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” he entreats God.