Pharaoh’s downfall in the Red Sea (Exodus 14). Wood engraving, published in 1886. We are all familiar with the telling of the story. At the seder, after the youngest child recites the ma ...

Few Americans realize that as the Jewish community begins reading the book of Exodus in the weekly Torah cycle, the text being studied is actually one of the political and moral founding documents of ...

Tracing the biblical Exodus route through the desert, one woman found a story of endurance and the unseen labor that makes survival possible ...

A central part of the Passover Seder is the study of four verses found in Parashat Ki Tavo, beginning with “Arami oved avi.” The verses were said by the farmer who brings first fruits to the Temple in ...

This weekend my family and I will celebrate the Passover Seder in the traditional manner, as we do every year. The Seder (which literally means ‘order’—an orderly, ritualistic meal) celebrates the ...

The veracity of the Bible’s Exodus story, the crux of the Passover seder and long an article of faith in the Jewish community — and a symbol of liberation for many communities — has become a subject ...

This weekend my family and I will celebrate the Passover Seder in the traditional manner, as we do every year. The Seder (which literally means ‘order’—an orderly, ritualistic meal) celebrates the ...