Nissan, as described in our maftir aliyah, is to be the “first of the months”, and it is our original new year. It’s a sign ...

Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, Passover commemorates pivotal events in the Book of Exodus. Jews celebrate the freeing of ...

Many lawmakers want to see the commandments displayed in public schools. Are they also interested in the Hebrew Bible’s ...

How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism? In the following interview, Shaye Cohen, the Littauer Professor of Hebrew ... He observed the Sabbath, he observed ...

The development of “Dayenu,” that Haggadah ditty that recaps the many miracles the Israelites experienced ... with God (“If He had given us the Shabbat and not brought us before Mt.

God ultimately delivered the Israelites from slavery and into the Promised Land. Jesus, similarly, shows nothing but ...