One of Judaism’s most important holidays, Passover — or Pesach in Hebrew — lasts eight days and celebrates and tells the story of the Exodus.

The long, seesawing history of Britain’s involvement in Zionism, from imperial sponsorship to modern diplomatic rupture.

This Shabbat is the confluence of three components of our calendar: the aftermath of Purim, Parashat Ki Tissa, and Shabbat ...

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

We think we know who the bad guys are in Parashat Ki Tisa. The Israelites panic. Moses has been gone too long. Forty days feels like forever. They want certainty, something tangible, something they ...

The episode of the Golden Calf stands as the Israelites’ lowest moment, a profound betrayal of God occurring so soon after the revelation at Sinai. While still on the mountain, God informed Moshe of ...

וַיִּסֹּ֥ב שְׁמוּאֵ֖ל לָלֶ֑כֶת וַיַּחֲזֵ֥ק בִּכְנַף־מְעִיל֖וֹ וַיִּקָּרַֽע As Samuel turned to leave, Saul seized the corner ...

This week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, is the only Torah portion, from the beginning of Exodus through the end of Deuteronomy, from which Moses is completely absent. Everywhere else in Exodus, Numbers, ...

As we approach Purim in just a few weeks, there is a profound connection between the garments of Ki Tetzaveh and the masks and costumes we will soon wear. In the Book of Esther, God’s name is never ...

A new study came out today on a topic that has been all too ignored in the religious Zionist and Modern Orthodox communities, ...

Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...