The fall festival of Sukkot, for example, is celebrated in small booths, temporary shelters that recall the Israelites’ ...

exploring the unexpected ambivalence with which the Hebrews face their newfound freedom. They have fled oppression, but that means leaving everything familiar to wander, seemingly endlessly, in the ...

Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi ...

In her 1983 novella “The Miracle Hater,” the late Israeli novelist Shulamit Hareven depicts the Hebrews ... to wander, seemingly endlessly, in the great unknown of the desert.

Hareven’s narrative elaborates on the uprooting wrought by the Exodus, exploring the unexpected ambivalence with which the Hebrews ... wander, seemingly endlessly, in the great unknown of the ...

Tech editor Sharon Wrobel discusses US tariffs and the war's effect on the tech industry; archaeology reporter Rossella ...

One of the most well-known and beloved Jewish holidays, Passover (in Hebrew, Pesach), is coming up soon on the 15th day of ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. On a radiant spring morning in Jerusalem, a group of visitors walked into the Cultural and Educational Center at the ...

A ranch dog in Arizona is being hailed as a hero after it led a lost toddler out of the desert wilderness and back to safety. Officials in Kingman reported that a two-year-old child slipped away ...

Before we delve into rock-related Old Testament (Hebrew Bible ... But first, some context. After wandering in the desert, Moses’s flock is thirsty, angry, rebellious, and questioning his ...

Freedom requires hard choices, and fleeing their Egyptian masters was indeed a hard choice for some of those slaves. Do I ...