A mitzvah in parashat Bo is connected to the flight from slavery, as well as a year-round commandment: the establishment of a calendar.
A bill put forward by the UTJ MK could see Israel's nature reserves become segregated by gender for at least 15% of their operational hours.
Close to 50 amulets were found on the body of a 2,300-year-old teenage mummy kept in the Cairo Egyptian Museum.
In Israel, Judaism and politics, are inseparable – one cannot be divorced from the other. Unlike in the US, the issue is not “church and state” – in Israel, it is “religion and state.”
The term devekut is often rendered in English as “cleaving.” Alas, using an English term that is not part of common speech hardly clarifies the experience being described.
“It will be a teachable moment every time somebody asks why those curtains are up there.”
A Nigerian gunman, with a history of targeting Catholic priests, has burnt a priest to death and shot another.
There are 14 sculptures of deities in the show, which features divine characters that are important to the 4,000-year-old Hindu belief system.
It is clear that our society has become far, far too violent, with hostile words quickly turning into physical confrontations