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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In his book Exodus and Revolution, Michael Walzer shares three lessons we can all learn from the Exodus event of the Old Testament: What the Exodus … taught: first, that wherever you live, it is ...