Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks,” has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...

Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-OTE), Hebrew for “weeks," has been observed since biblical times. It marks the passing of seven ...

Sunday afternoon’s attack in Boulder, Colorado, took place hours before the start of a major Jewish festival, Shavuot.

Melissa Febos’s new book, The Dry Season, recounts a year of celibacy and the freedom it gave her to reconnect.

This Shavuot, read Kelsey Osgood's 'Godstruck,' a reflection on her own unexpected Orthodox conversion to Judaism as well as ...

As Genesis ends with Joseph welcoming his family to Egypt, both Scripture and art point to a deeper truth: the path to ...

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They were spoken in preparation to answer a higher calling, no matter the challenge; words confirming the trials, adversity and duty that personify an attempt to exemplify moral ideals.The post ...

We talked with author Peter F. Hamilton about Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, a prequel novel to the sci-fi RPG video game Exodus. Archetype Entertainment's Exodus is still a ways off, but that hasn't ...

As told in the Book of Exodus, Moses seeks freedom for enslaved Hebrews in Egypt, but Pharaoh refuses to let them go. Unleashing his wrath, God sets 10 plagues upon Egypt, each one worse than the ...

Led by Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince, the Book of Exodus in the Torah details a series of plagues and miracles that enabled the Israelites to escape from the Egyptians, leading to the ...

The central commandment at the traditional Seder feast is to remember the exodus, the flight of the ancient Israelites from slavery to freedom. Adam Sobsey’s new book, “A Jewish Appendix ...