Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone of Crown Heights observed on Twitter that the Israelites who regularly preach near his home on Shabbat have been “particularly aggressive” of late, heaping verbal ...

After all, if such a war were to occur and the Israelites were to act as a fifth column, the last thing they would do (as victors) would be to leave the land. If anything they would stay put and ...

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

Q: The Bible chronology puts Moses much later in time, around 1450 B.C.E. Is there archeological evidence for Moses and the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of Israelites described in the Bible?

On Passover, the Jewish holiday commemorating the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, the youngest member at ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) raised eyebrows on when he shared the text of a Bible verse, Joshua 1:9, on Sunday. “Do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you ...

How did the religious practices of the earliest Israelites differ from Judaism? In the following interview, Shaye Cohen, the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard ...

Perhaps Yitro was not just looking for a God to believe in but a nation to be part of. In the splitting of the sea and the war of Amalek, Jethro found a special destiny embedded in Jewish peoplehood, ...

Chapter Two of the biblical Book of Exodus compresses into a mere five paragraphs the extraordinary story of Moses the Israelite boy born into a slave family who becomes the prince of Egypt and then a ...