The Exodus

Beyond the Headlines: Stronger than we think

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

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.
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.

Invoking Torah, Minnesota Jews mobilize against ICE operations

 THANK YOU, Selman Waksman, for isolating streptomycin.

This week in Jewish history: Miracle aids and antibiotics

 Cylinders found at Tel Um el-Marra, Syria.

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


Parashat Shemot: Attitudes about us

With the rise of anti-Jewish behavior around the world, we also need to pause and realize we are not alone as we have been in the past.

 THE UN General Assembly, New York – which passed 15 anti-Israel resolutions last year.

Parashat Shemot: Courageous woman in Pharaoh’s palace

Pharaoh’s daughter is one of the courageous women we meet in parashat Shemot, alongside the Hebrew midwives Shifra and Pu’ah, Yocheved and Miriam.

 SANDRA KRAIL (L) of the Netherlands seen during a ceremony at Yad Vashem honoring her grandparents Johannes and Jantje Keijl-Schoemaler as Righteous Among the Nations.

Rosh Hashanah: ‘For my sake the world was created’

Each individual has the power and potential to change the world. Indeed, throughout Jewish history there were many individuals who literally changed the course of Jewish history.

 YOU – THE reason the world exists.

What are the Ten Commandments in the Bible? - explainer

The Ten Commandments have a central place in Judaism and Jewish history, given by God and Moses at Mount Sinai. Here's what you need to know about them.

 Moses and Aaron with the 10 Commandments (illustrative).

Israeli archeologists discover 'once-in-a-lifetime find' of ancient pottery under beach

The burial cave in Israel from the Late Bronze Age, the time of Pharaoh Ramses II – possibly from the story of the Exodus from Egypt - contained dozens of intact objects.

 The vessels from 3,300 years ago discovered at Palmachim Beach.

On This Day: 75 years since Exodus 1947 took 4,500 European Jews to Israel

More than 60 ships attempted to take illegal Jewish immigrants to Mandatory Palestine during Aliyah Bet with mixed results. But Exodus 1947 was the largest,

The 'EXODUS' ship following the Britsih takeover, with damage to its makeshift barriers. The banner reads, 'Haganah Ship Exodus 1947.'

Passover: The end of financial slavery - opinion

The beauty of freedom is that you are in control. Stop making excuses, get to work and use your newfound “freedom” to get on the path of financial independence.

Calculating taxes

Passover 2022: Finding redemption in the face of terror - opinion

The Talmud teaches that Nisan is the month of redemption for everyone just as it was for the Jews in Egypt in Exodus.

 COMRADES CARRY the body of Border Police officer Yazan Falah, at his funeral in Kisra-Sumei, a day after he was murdered in the Hadera terror attack last month.

The story of Exodus gives Jews empathy to identify with plights of others - opinion

Pulling down barriers such as gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, we are living in an age of unprecedented empathy.

 THE WRITER in Passover spirit with his children.

‘Ani Maamin’: A book that will change the way you think about the Torah

Can belief overcome doubts and the Bible’s critics and skeptics? And does it matter?

 'Ani Maamin: Biblical Criticism, Historical Truth, and the Thirteen Principles of Faith' by Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman