Did God rob Pharaoh of his free will in the Exodus story? Or, counterintuitively, did God simply strengthen it?

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on power, leadership and slavery in Exodus 3:14.

Moses never veers from this line. Contrary to popular belief, he never tells Pharaoh, “let my people go,” full stop, but ...

Parsha Bo is often remembered for its drama including the final plagues, the rising tension, the night that reshaped Jewish history. Yet beneath the spectacle, the Torah is asking a quieter, deeply ...

In this week's edition of the Jerusalem Lights podcast, Jim Long and Rabbi Chaim Richman offer some answers to our viewer's ...

Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...

The Argentine president delivered an anti-globalist speech at the World Economic Forum, citing the Exodus story as a warning to the West.The post Milei invokes Torah, Judeo-Christian values at Davos ...

This is a moment for the people of Iran to exercise their courage and their power. And it is a moment for the world to stand together in support.

A children's song about a Pharaoh in pajamas tells more about Jewish history than one might think at first glance.