Freedom requires hard choices, and fleeing their Egyptian masters was indeed a hard choice for some of those slaves. Do I ...

More than the miracles, or the crossing of the Red Sea, or the revelation of God in the desert (His presence was already ...

The Jewish holiday of Passover begins Saturday, April 12 at sundown and goes until nightfall on Sunday, April 20. There are ...

No other people have so unequivocally chosen a story of slavery and liberation as their defining national narrative.

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This weekend marks the annual observance of the Jewish holiday of Passover, the annual spring festival that commemorates the exodus from slavery in Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.

While the celebrations again occur amid anxieties related to the unresolved Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the specter of ...

Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the ...

Hineini, "We are fully present," honoring important and pivotal women in the formation of our history, role models of values and action, inspirational human beings who helped to shape the narrative of ...

One of the most well-known and beloved Jewish holidays, Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach), is coming up soon on the 15th day of ...

Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one?