The Exodus

Beyond the Headlines: Stronger than we think

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.
Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm, of the Conservative Beth Shalom Congregation in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, speaks out with other faith leaders against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities at a press conference at a Lutheran church in St. Paul, Jan. 20, 2026.

Invoking Torah, Minnesota Jews mobilize against ICE operations

 THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

 Cylinders found at Tel Um el-Marra, Syria.

‘This is from Moses’: Newly imaged Sinai inscriptions revive Exodus-era alphabet debate


Is the Bible's story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt accurate?

How authentic is the Biblical account of the Jewish people’s departure from Egypt for the Promised Land?

 Departure of the Israelites 'Departure of the Israelites' by David Roberts, 1829.

Letters to the Editor January 26, 2022: Not one act of violence

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Jews of Egypt, Europe were bound by mental enslavement - opinion

The Hebrews in Egypt during Moses’s time, and the Jews in Europe during Herzl’s time, failed to envision the path to freedom.

 Strawberry Fields, New York City.

Did the Exodus happen? Israeli scholar tours Egypt to show it did

The right approach is to look for signs of Egyptian culture in the Torah, Bar Ilan Prof. Joshua Berman says.

 Tourists look at the 3200-year-old Abu Simbel temple during a daily sound and light show, on the eve of the anniversary of pharaoh king Ramses II's coronation.

Parashat Beshalach: Just be strong and have courage!

Parashat Beshalach opens with a rare verse in that it offers a detailed explanation for a decision of God’s. 

THE STORY ends with the familiar Parting of the Red Sea

Parashat Bo: The victory of the poor man’s lamb

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.

A LAMB bleats after separation from its mother

Saving Jews from persecution: The lesson from my bar mitzvah - opinion

If I had had access to the Kremlin the way Moses did to Pharaoh, I suspect I’d have gone there, too.

 RALLYING FOR Soviet Jewry in the US, Simhat Torah, 1983.

Parashat Va’erah: Contrasting households

On the moral plane, the Torah taught the world how to see. That remains our responsibility, our struggle and our task.

‘Hand of God in Exodus and the Crossing of the Red Sea,’ wall painting from the Dura-Europas synagogue in Syria

Parashat Vayigash: Incitement as the little secret

We must look closely: What was the background of this incitement? Why did the king of Egypt incite his nation against the Israelites and why was he so successful?

DETAIL FROM ‘Moses Leaving to Egypt’ by Pietro Perugino, c. 1482. Zipporah is in blue.

The essence of the Exodus- From Egypt and from Europe

The Exodus from Egypt and the exodus from Europe 3,000 years later are so similar that biblical critics in the far future might argue that they were one and the same.

Herzl immortalized in Dimona, Israel