Yitro, this week’s Torah portion, has a lot to say about qualifications for public officials — namely, trustworthiness and ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of stubby horns. Michelangelo wasn’t the first artist to depict the Hebrew ...

Do not come any closer.” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Exodus 35:5 ...

The story of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt, with Moses as its protagonist, is probably the most well-known of all stories in the ...

The Bible has “seventy ... Jewish humour can be black. In Exodus, the ancient Israelites found life in the desert difficult; they querulously asked Moses, “Weren’t there enough ...

Chapter Two of the biblical Book of Exodus compresses into a mere five paragraphs the extraordinary story of Moses the Israelite boy born into a slave family who becomes the prince of Egypt and then a ...

Now if God simply forbids the making of graven images, then there are problems elsewhere in the Bible. First, in Exodus 25:18-21, God commands Moses to make two statues of angels (cherubim ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...