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Moses vs. Pharaoh: The binds of leadership

A king's pardon is possible when he rules by fiat, but a Jewish ruler is subject to the law ...
Wonder Project has announced The Old Stories Moses, a three-part companion special set in the world of House of David, along ...
Future historians would deride this as the “Pharaoh Constant” – a civilization of unbroken empire, universal slavery, and ...
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 ...
Rabbi Stern served as a congregational rabbi in Nyack, New York, and as director of Neighborhood Interfaith Movement in Mount Airy. He is a member of the Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist minyan at ...
Saved from a watery death by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised among Egyptian royalty, Moses would not have seemed to be a candidate for freeing the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery. God’s designs are not, ...