This week’s portion, Pekude, covers the last chapters of Exodus and so is a good place to try to draw some general lessons from our story of stories. The poets have been finding metaphors and similes ...

Finally, the Children of Israel are free. Four hundred and thirty years after God promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the land of Canaan, the Israelites have begun their journey to the ...

FPS fans have been waiting four long years to get their hands on Metro Exodus, the latest game title from 4A games based around Dmitry Glukhovsky's Metro series of novels. The developers have several ...

The Israelites were living in captivity in Egypt. They were persecuted and abused. Pharaoh ordered that all Hebrew newborn boys be killed. Moses was born during this time. His mother hid him in a ...

This is the time of year when we Jews read the story of “Yetzi’at Mitzrayim,” the Exodus from Egypt. (It is part of our yearly reading of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses.) The experience of slavery ...

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Soon, we shall again be reading the story of Exodus. It’s a good story, whether it actually happened or not. Now there’s the current version, coming into Texas. Their problem is they don’t have Moses ...

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The story of Moses, the reluctant prince-turned-prophet who freed the Jews from slavery in Egypt, is being retold in a new film. “Exodus: Gods and Kings” marks the third major studio film of 2014 ...

Jews around the world are celebrating Passover, which commemorates the redemption of ancient Israel from slavery in Egypt. Although that event occurred nearly 3,500 years ago, its essential lessons — ...