Sunday school students at Temple Israel in Valparaiso prepared for Passover by learning the traditions of the Seder, a ritual feast day at the beginning of the holiday season for those of the Jewish ...

Leo Gordon’s tongue-in-cheek letter about reparations owed to the Jews for their Egyptian enslavement (April 30) reminds me of a story in the Talmud’s Tractate Sanhedrin. The Egyptians were claiming ...

CAIRO — Egypt today displayed newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that ...

Passover, the Jewish Festival of Freedom, is celebrated by Jews around the world every year. The eight-day holiday, which begins this year at sundown on April 5, commemorates the liberation of Hebrews ...

(The Conversation) — The Passover Seder commemorates the escape from slavery in Egypt. But then came the 40-year wandering in the desert – a story that resonates with much of Jewish history. (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 ...

Christian interpreters of the Bible usually see themselves as God’s chosen people. We relate to people like Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Rachel. When reading a book like Exodus, ...

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 ...

Exodus, Chapter 1 Exodus begins with a population crisis. Jacob’s descendants have multiplied and prospered in Egypt, “and the land was filled with them.” The new Pharaoh is alarmed and “oppressed ...

These days, “black oppression” is a tactic used in dirty politics. But in my early life, it was very real. The Jim Crow days were a landscaped wilderness between slavery and freedom – a mirage of ...