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 ...

Armed and Divided Shabbat Thought Torah Portion Beshalach 2025 (revised from previous versions) In the Torah portion this ...

President Trump, speaking to Fox News, reiterated his plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and said its population would be ...

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

Comprehension begins within us, including our understanding and encounter with God – the universal web that connects us to ...

Eight more hostages were freed from the Gaza Strip by Hamas-led militants on Thursday in a sometimes chaotic process that ...

Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...

Why did God “harden Pharaoh’s heart?” There are several ways to interpret what this means. Why did God allow Pharaoh to harden his heart (non-intervention)? Why did God intervene and prevent ...

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 ...

has shown his moral mettle in an action-packed narrative that includes the flight of Moses from Egypt, God’s commissioning of Moses at the burning bush, and his second ‘adoption’ by the ...

In exchange, Israel freed 110 Palestinian prisoners. Their release was delayed because of chaos surrounding Thursday’s ...

In this week’s Torah reading, Moses begins his path to leading a revolution. Born a Levite among the Israelites, raised by the daughter of Pharaoh, he is a prince of Egypt. But in one moment ...