At sundown April 1, Jews around the world celebrate the first night of Passover, among the most important of Jewish holidays.
For him, and countless others, the road to marking the Israelites’ escape from Egypt millennia ago would run through Egypt ...
According to Bar-Ilan University's Joshua Berman, who curated the new hagaddah ‘Echoes of Egypt,' the biblical narrative ...
Amid war with Iran, thousands of Israelis and tourists leave Israel through Taba in a modern-day reverse Exodus. *Exodus 10:1 ...
Sitting around a table, reading from a book, asking questions, singing songs — for many Jewish families, Passover begins this ...
This is essentially what Passover is: an exodus from the control of the desire to receive, called “Egypt,” to the desire to ...
This Passover, Jews sit at the Seder table amid sirens, reflecting on freedom, oppression, and existential threats in today’s world.
Future historians would deride this as the “Pharaoh Constant” – a civilization of unbroken empire, universal slavery, and ...
Rabbi Stern served as a congregational rabbi in Nyack, New York, and as director of Neighborhood Interfaith Movement in Mount Airy. He is a member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist minyan at ...
In Israel, the holiday ends on April 8. Each year, the holiday falls on different dates due to Jewish tradition abiding by a lunar calendar. The holiday is almost always entirely in April, although ...
Ridley Scott‘s Exodus has been banned in Egypt after the country’s head of censorship objected to a number of “historical inaccuracies” in the epic Biblical tale. Deadline first reported weeks ago ...