Nearly every Easter and Passover season since 1973, Americans have tuned in to ABC to watch Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 sand-and-sandals epic “The Ten Commandments.” This year, Netflix picked the season ...

Tonight is the first night of Passover, where the story of Exodus, central to Jewish tradition and the Passover celebration, will be told. But the Exodus story resonates profoundly beyond Judaism, ...

The Jewish holiday of Passover (the Hebrew word for Pesach) is based on the story of the Exodus in the Jewish bible. How the ancient Israelites became enslaved in Egypt for 430 years, how Moses ...

Soon, we shall again be reading the story of Exodus. It’s a good story, whether it actually happened or not. Now there’s the current version, coming into Texas. Their problem is they don’t have Moses ...

The Exodus echoes remind us that Jewish and African liberations are intertwined. In facing jihadist “Pharaohs,” this biblical bond calls for unbreakable solidarity, ensuring both peoples reach their ...

"And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him; for Joseph had solemnly sworn the people of Israel, saying, 'God will visit you; then you must carry my bones with you from here'" (Exodus 13:19). This ...

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 ...

An ancient workshop unearthed in Egypt may offer new evidence for the Bible’s story of Moses. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that researchers discovered a copper smelting ...

Fourteen years ago, Ridley Scott directed a 2 1/2-hour drama set many centuries before the present along the Mediterranean crescent. A dying ruler gave the hero his blessing as a surrogate son but ...

Every year at Passover we are commanded to imagine ourselves leaving Egypt — Joel Silverstein painted himself into the picture. “That part of ‘You were there’ always got me,” said Silverstein, artist ...