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The Ten Plagues about which we begin reading this week have always bothered me. If God’s intention was to redeem the Israelite people from Egyptian slavery then He could have just taken them out ...

When the Passover holiday begins on Friday at sundown, Jewish people around the world will celebrate by retelling the biblical story of the Exodus from Egypt — including the 10 plagues that God ...

Along with Jews the world over, I’m preparing to celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, as recounted primarily in the biblical book of Exodus. Usually, the coming of ...

The Jewish exodus from Egypt was proceeded by 10 plagues the caused the pharaoh to relent and allow them to leave. But were they really divine intervention? The Bible tells the story of the Israelites ...

The Ten Plagues were a lesson in proportionate warfare. Yes, really. Moses was a national liberation leader, determined to free his people from slavery, oppression and the pervasive threat of genocide ...

Pandemics are inexorable—and the canon of plague literature is a chronicle of nature's senselessness and its indomitability. “There was no ostensible cause,” wrote Thucydides in 431 BC, about the ...

A student recently asked me why the Bible seems to have so many plagues in it and what all these plagues are for. To give a quick answer, in the Bible, plagues occur because the Almighty is angry ...

It’s a sick world, and finding the cure has never been easy. Sure, COVID-19 presented health care workers with an enormous challenge, but it wasn’t the first. History is filled with stories of ...