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From ancient Egypt to Amalek: Understanding today’s threats through the Passover story - opinion

This Passover, Jews sit at the Seder table amid sirens, reflecting on freedom, oppression, and existential threats in today’s world.

|ByJEFFREY KAHN
Passover Seder plate with alternative fillings.
You don't have to be superhuman to change history.

You don’t have to be Moses: This generation must rise to lead in a time of war - opinion

Each and every one of us should rise to the occasion and seek justice, seek victory, seek fulfillment for this amazing and miraculous country of which we are a part.

|BySTEWART WEISS
DO WE not have the right to mourn, to take stock of our losses? Pictured: Direct Iran missile hit in Arad, seen March 22.

Passover and the Holocaust: Why Judaism refuses to build identity on tragedy - opinion

The only safeguard against this constant danger is constant vigilance: seeing Jewish duty as the greatest of privileges.

|ByNATHAN LOPES CARDOZO
Close-up of the Merenptah Stele, mentioning Israel on line 27.

Echoes of Egypt: Haggadah that brings ancient Egypt to your seder

Experience a Haggadah that brings 3,000 years of Egyptian imagery to life.

|ByMICHAEL BERNSTEIN

Parashat Miketz: Days of love and hate – How do we cope?

“Will we find [anyone] like this, a man in whom there is the spirit of God?” (Genesis 41: 38).

DECEMBER 17, 2020ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
Ayman Hussien, a guard of Famine Stela, or "Rock of Starvation", sits near the rock, initially attributed to the reign of King Djoser (Third Dynasty), during a shortage of the Nile flood that led to a seven-year drought and famine, on the Nile's Sehel Island at Aswan, Egypt February 21, 2020

Coronavirus and the ten plagues

What if the plagues were relevant for all time?

APRIL 8, 2020ByFARANAK MARGOLESE
HIS FATAL error: ‘Moses Striking the Rock,’ Jacopo Tintoretto, 1563

Parashat Vayeshev: Who do we see in our reflection?

Often, our sins stem from an error in our self-image.

JANUARY 10, 2020ByRABBI SHMUEL RABINOWITZ
SHOLEM ALEICHEM at his desk in St. Petersburg in 1904BOYS SEE their re ections in a pool with gold sh in Ashdod

Cosmic-ray imaging finds hidden structure in Egypt's Great Pyramid

The findings come from a project called Scan Pyramids that relies on non-invasive scanning methods to probe the internal structure of the pyramids.

NOVEMBER 2, 2017ByREUTERS
A 3D artistic view of the chamber recently found in the pyramids.