The Exodus

Parashat Tzav: True freedom begins in the mind, not in physical circumstance

Shabbat Hagadol is a time of inner preparation for the Festival of Freedom. On this Shabbat, we begin to think and act from a broader perspective.

|ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
An Israeli family enjoys a "Seder" Pesach on the first night of the Jewish holiday of Pesach. April 22, 2024.
Shirel Dagan-Levy, CEO of Voice of the People

Seeing beyond the moment: What Passover demands of us this year

This year, perhaps the most important question the holiday asks of us is not “what happened then,” but “what does this moment require of us now?”

|BySHIREL DAGAN-LEVY
Prophet Miriam plays the tambourine as she dances and sings with the women as they leave Egypt. A Camden Press poster of a wood carving by the Brothers Dalziel after a mid-19th-century illustration by Edward Poynter.

Az Nashir Haggadah: Women’s voices on the path to redemption - review

A Haggadah that blends tradition, contemporary Israeli reality, and women’s voices for a living redemption.

|ByRIVKAH LAMBERT ADLER
Margaret Malka Rawicz sits with a Bedouin lady who took her to tend sheep in Sinai Desert.

Walking the Exodus: One woman's journey through the desert Moses crossed

Tracing the biblical Exodus route through the desert, one woman found a story of endurance and the unseen labor that makes survival possible

|ByPAULA SLIER

Beyond the Headlines: Stronger than we think

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

JANUARY 22, 2026BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.

Invoking Torah, Minnesota Jews mobilize against ICE operations

Minnesota’s Jewish community is speaking out against ICE raids, invoking Torah teachings on welcoming the stranger and mobilizing protests across the Twin Cities.

JANUARY 22, 2026ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Rabbi Tamar Magill-Grimm, of the Conservative Beth Shalom Congregation in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, speaks out with other faith leaders against Immigrations and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities at a press conference at a Lutheran church in St. Paul, Jan. 20, 2026.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JULY 19, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

‘This is from Moses’: Newly imaged Sinai inscriptions revive Exodus-era alphabet debate

High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted faint letters that one epigrapher reads as “This is from Moses.”

JULY 7, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Cylinders found at Tel Um el-Marra, Syria.

Lag Ba'Omer 2025 will act as vehicle to express prayers for hostages, soldiers, all Jews - opinion

Beyond the Headlines: A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news

MAY 12, 2025BySIVAN RAHAV MEIR
An illustration signifying the importance of smaller steps as you climb a figurative ladder.

The importance of God's name in the story of Passover - opinion

If God is willing to conduct a dialogue with a human being and change His mind, how much more so must human beings conduct a dialogue with each other and be willing to change their minds?

APRIL 19, 2025ByDAVID GOLINKIN
PLATE 11: ‘And She Stood by Us,’ by Matthew L. Berkowitz, from ‘The Lovell Haggadah,’ Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and Nirtzah Editions LCC, Jerusalem, copyright 2008.

Passover 2025: From the pride of Egypt to the humility of Israel - opinion

In the formative process of the exodus, the Jewish people leave a land that represents the height of pride, and they journey to a land of humility.

APRIL 19, 2025ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Riders on camels are seen passing pyramids in Egypt.

The nature of miracles: From splitting the Red Sea to the State of Israel - opinion

I think that Passover in general, and its seventh day in particular, is the perfect time to appreciate “the miracles that are with us daily,” as we say in the Amidah prayer.

APRIL 19, 2025BySTEWART WEISS
THE STORY ends with the familiar Parting of the Red Sea

Passover 2025: Crossing your own Red Sea

We all face Red Seas in one form or another. But the good news is that just as God parted the waters for our forefathers when they left Egypt, He can part them for us as well.

APRIL 18, 2025ByMICHAEL FREUND
PHARAOH’S ARMY engulfed by the Red Sea, by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, 1900. ‘The wind dropped, the waters flooded back, and the entire Egyptian force was drowned.’

The Passover paradox: Being given freedom from slavery, but also new strict rules

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

APRIL 12, 2025ByMORDECHAI BECK
'Moses Parting the Red Sea' by Hans Jordaens.