Note that it is EGYPT which subjugates them, not EGYPTIANS. Clearly, the Israelites are enslaved to the very life of Egypt, ...

Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone of Crown Heights observed on Twitter that the Israelites who regularly preach near his home on Shabbat have been “particularly aggressive” of late, heaping verbal ...

When Moses resists the Divine call, he expresses a heartfelt and deep humility that serves as a model for all of us.

A movement of people of African descent who claim to descend from the biblical Israelites, one offshoot has been described as a hate group. Black Hebrew Israelites can refer broadly to people of ...

Parashat Shemot, which opens the second book of the Torah, recounts the suffering of the Israelites in Egypt. After years of ...

Q: The Bible chronology puts Moses much later in time, around 1450 B.C.E. Is there archeological evidence for Moses and the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Israelites described in the Bible?

God looked upon the Israelites, and God took notice of them.” What is the Torah describing here? The situation of the ...

How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism? In the following interview, Shaye Cohen, the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard ...

Does the Biblical story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt appear in Greek mythology? This article examines some possibilities.