Pulling down barriers such as gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, we are living in an age of unprecedented empathy.
Can belief overcome doubts and the Bible’s critics and skeptics? And does it matter?
How authentic is the Biblical account of the Jewish people’s departure from Egypt for the Promised Land?
Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.
The Hebrews in Egypt during Moses’s time, and the Jews in Europe during Herzl’s time, failed to envision the path to freedom.
The right approach is to look for signs of Egyptian culture in the Torah, Bar Ilan Prof. Joshua Berman says.
Parashat Beshalach opens with a rare verse in that it offers a detailed explanation for a decision of God’s.
God asked every family or group to get a lamb or sheep and to eat it during the night when the Jewish nation was slated to leave Egypt.
If I had had access to the Kremlin the way Moses did to Pharaoh, I suspect I’d have gone there, too.
On the moral plane, the Torah taught the world how to see. That remains our responsibility, our struggle and our task.
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