The story of Moses is central to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. He led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, and guided a wandering nation toward the ...

Numbers 21:6-9 (RSV) Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. [7] And the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for ...

Edwin Moses always loved the sport of track and field. But reaching the Olympics always seemed like a tall order. At a young age, Moses was a lot smaller than the other runners. In high school, he was ...

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God chose a Hebrew raised as an Egyptian to lead his people out of slavery. I was six when I found out my sister and I didn’t have the same father. I was six when I realized that someone could be ...

Back when I was teaching in Prague, one enthusiastic student loved to tease me about my obsession with the passing of Israel’s greatest teacher. In this fixation I am not alone: The Midrashim testify ...