The name Moses is a play on a Hebrew word that means “to be drawn out of” — in his case, the waters of the Nile. Moses was rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter when he was found floating in a basket on the ...

(JTA) — Nearly every Easter and Passover season since 1973, Americans have tuned in to ABC to watch Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 sand-and-sandals epic “The Ten Commandments.” This year, Netflix picked the ...

Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...

A controversial new interpretation of markings etched on the walls of an ancient Egyptian mine could prove the Book of Exodus to be true. Researcher Michael Bar-Ron claimed that a 3,800-year-old Proto ...

This weekend my family and I will celebrate the Passover Seder in the traditional manner, as we do every year. The Seder (which literally means ‘order’—an orderly, ritualistic meal) celebrates the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a massive 3,000-year-old fortress along an ancient route many believe was traveled during the biblical Exodus. The stronghold, recently unearthed ...

Yocheved, the mother of Moses, merits nary a mention after her son grows up. When Israel’s future liberator was born, she daringly defied Pharoah by hiding the boy in a basket of reeds set upon the ...

Richie Johns, of Studio 523, told JNS that his sitcom “The Promised Land,” which modernizes the biblical stories of Moses, ...