This Passover we can honor the tenacity of Miriam, the agency and pain of Yocheved and the commitment of Batya — women whose efforts helped lead us out of Egypt. After all, we owe them. Though they ...

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The name “Miriam” stems from the Hebrew word for “bitter” (mar), and Miriam has every right to feel that way. “Miriam who?” you might ask? My point exactly. I’m talking about the biblical Israelite ...

Just like that, she was gone. With no forewarning, Parashat Chukat tells us “Miriam died there and was buried there” (Numbers 20:1). “She died with a Divine kiss,” the Talmud says, and with that one ...

If the seder is a family drama around the dinner table, with the haggadah as our script, we are charged to be method actors when we play it out: to take a leap of spiritual imagination and see and ...

While Islam states that God sends at least one prophet to every linguistic community in the whole world; most Islamic scholars believe that the prophets sent were always male. Judaism states that God ...