Passover: Faith and freedom
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2016
My local Ralphs has begun stocking its shelves with Passover goodies.
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exodus
Ilan Stavans’ ‘New World Haggadah’ for the modern world
Jewish Journal
March 17, 2016
Ilan Stavans feels the time has come for the diversity of the modern Jewish experience to be reflected in the Haggadah we read at our Passover seders.
If God took the Jews out of Egypt…
Dennis Prager
April 8, 2015
If God took the Jews out of Egypt, why didn’t he take the Jews out of Europe during the Holocaust?
Pharoah said ‘no.’ You won’t believe what God did next.
Marty Kaplan
April 2, 2015
Once, at our seder, our friend Ira gave a running commentary on the haggadah, offering a scientific explanation for every miracle and wonder in the Exodus story.
Let’s leave Obama out of our seders
David Suissa
April 1, 2015
Jews have big mouths. Put those big mouths in a society that reveres freedom of speech and it’s a sight to behold.
Letters to the editor: Exodus, spirituality and anti-Semitism
Jewish Journal
April 23, 2014
I must admit that each time I read a good argument supporting each position (1) the Bible is to be taken literally and (2) the Bible is not to be taken literally, I find I am moved by both positions (“Did the Exodus Happen?” April 18).
Did the Exodus happen?
Dennis Prager
April 16, 2014
With Passover here, it is a propitious time to address the central issue of the holiday: the Exodus. Specifically, did the Exodus happen?
Hollywood and the Nazis: Two historians, two opinions
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2013
The study of history never lends itself to a single unambiguous view of the past. For history is, as the British scholar E.H. Carr observed in his famous 1961 book “What is History?” “a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the past and the present.”
BBC slammed for pulling documentary on Jewish exodus from Jerusalem
Jewish Journal
May 1, 2013
An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
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