This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The biannual Israel Exploration Journal, a peer-reviewed journal published for over half a century, serves as a major ...

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here.” — Sue Monk Kidd, author During a Passover seder, Jews tell the story of Exodus to remind us of ...

The opening chapter of Shemot contains an episode that properly deserves a place of honor in the history of morality. Pharaoh has decided on a plan of slow genocide. He tells the midwives, Shifra and ...

Parshat Shemot encompasses all the complexity of being a feminist Jew. What alienates us; what thrills us. How we read. The family dramas and traumas of Genesis reached their denouement with the end ...

Of the 83 people introduced by name in Genesis, only 24 are women. In Chapter One of Exodus, we are reintroduced to Jacob and his 12 sons and two new female characters: Shifrah and Puah. When we first ...

"A new king rose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph, and he said to his nation: 'Behold! The nation of the Children of Israel is greater and mightier than us. Come, let us deal cunningly with it, ...

The Book of Exodus opens with the information that in accordance with the divine promise to Abraham, the sons of his grandchild Israel have swelled to become a people. For the Egyptians this evolution ...

A few days after taking office, it was important for the new Chief Rabbis to come out with an emotional call to the rabbis of the communities in Israel and around the world, and implore them to ...