COMMENTARY: Far from arbitrary punishments, the plagues of Egypt are presented in Exodus as divine signs meant to call ...

DAYTONA BEACH — Most people have heard of Passover, but many may not really know what the religious holiday that began Friday at sundown is all about. Here's some basic information about the ...

The liturgy of Passover is particularly focused on thanking G-d for enabling the Israelite slaves to escape ancient Egypt. And when we anecdotally tell the story of Passover, whether to small children ...

God chose a Hebrew raised as an Egyptian to lead his people out of slavery. I was six when I found out my sister and I didn’t have the same father. I was six when I realized that someone could be ...

This week’s Torah portion describes our exile in Egypt. According to the text, we know that Pharaoh enslaved us and put us to work building the treasury cities of Pithom and Raamses (Shemot 1:11). The ...

The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C. The late Middle AgesA lamb, unleavened ...

"Literature of Hebrew music"--P. 354-357. MUSIC OF THE MOST ANCIENT NATIONS PARTICULARLY OF THE ASSYRIANS EGYPTIANS AND HEBREWS MICROFORM : WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO RECENT DISCOVERIES IN WESTERN ASIA ...

the various labors that they made them perform. Ruthlessly they made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field. The Midrash tells us: “at ...

Credit for having originated monotheism belongs to the Egyptians and not the Jews was the contention of Dr. James Breasted, archaeologist who is accompanying John D. Rockefeller Jr. on his tour which ...