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What’s perhaps most impressive about Tweet the Exodus is that the group of rabbis, led by Rabbi Oren Hayon, behind it have set up not just a central feed containing provocative quotations, entertaining links, and, eventually, the story of the Jews’ departure from Egypt, but that they’ve set up a whole bunch of other ...

We were once slaves in the land of Egypt, until the Lord with His outstretched hand did His thing. But, while in Egypt, whatever we were doing, we probably weren’t building the pyramids. Mud-brick tombs discovered last week purportedly demonstrate that the builders of the famous pyramids at Giza were paid laborers, probably drawn from ...

The ten plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, the drowning of Pharaoh and his army. Barbara Sivertsen delved into the geological record and came up with a new theory that explains them all. She’s the managing editor of the Journal of Geology, and her new book is called The Parting of ...

2008 · 5 minutes
After forty years in the desert, Moses has had enough.
Coming in December: Episode IV.
Written by Stephen Levinson and Joel Moss Levinson. Animation by Ed Mundy. Illustration by Mike Herrod. Music by Craig Hillelson. Sound engineering by Jesse Novak. Featuring the voices of Shek Baker, Todd Barry, Joe DeRosa, Jonathan ...

On a Wednesday in early August, Mikhael Manekin and Yehuda Shaul lead a group of twenty-two visitors through the West Bank city of Hebron. Manekin is collected, friendly, and compact in a University of Maryland tee shirt; Shaul speaks angrily, breathes heavily, and his large frame seems about to burst out of his button-down shirt. ...

2008 · 3 minutes
Egypt wants the Hebrews to finish building the pyramids, but it’s time to move on.
Coming in October: Episode III, “Getting There Is Half the Fun.”
Written by Stephen Levinson and Joel Moss Levinson. Animation by Ed Mundy. Illustration by Mike Herrod. Music by Craig Hillelson. Featuring the voices of Julie Klausner and ...

Earlier this year, as Israel celebrated its sixtieth anniversary, the country’s journalists, pundits, and bloggers amused themselves by nominating individuals for the title of the quintessential sabra. Ariel Sharon, ur-warrior, was in the running, of course, as were Yitzhak Rabin, prince of peace and the nation’s first Israeli-born Prime Minister, and Ilan Ramon, the first ...

Otto Preminger standing on a replica of a U.S. Navy cruiser ship, as he prepares to order a miniature flotilla into battle (1965)
Midway through The Man Who Would Be King, his new biography of the producer-director Otto Preminger, Foster Hirsch relates the story of the turbulent production of Exodus, Preminger’s 1960 epic (based on the ...

Once upon a time, in that strangely distant era known as the 1970s, American Larry Collins and Frenchman Dominique Lapierre collaborated on a book about the birth of Israel. Impeccably researched and written in the sort of fast-paced, novelistic style that is often described as “bringing history to life,” the book—dubbed, with a biblical flourish, ...