At dawn on Tuesday morning, a large group gathered on a mountain in the Negev desert to reenact the moments leading up to the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt. Dressed in robes and flowing dresses, these ...

One day, while working at a foundry in Chicago, the man who would become known as Ben Ammi Ben-Israel had a revelation. “I realized that I was the Messiah,” Ben-Israel later recounted. From the Dan ...

Eleven Passovers ago, Leonid Feldman-allowed to leave the Soviet Union only after a hunger strike had reduced him to bone and shadow-was in Israel celebrating his first seder, the feast of the Hebrew ...

The new movie, “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” has drawn a lot of heat because of the producer’s choice to, once again, select a white cast to portray the Egyptians and the Jews of the Old Testament. To ...

As long as we never lose our story, we will never lose our identity. Sometimes others know us better than we know ourselves. In the year 2000, a British Jewish research institute came up with a ...