This week’s portion, Pekude, covers the last chapters of Exodus and so is a good place to try to draw some general lessons from our story of stories. The poets have been finding metaphors and similes ...

This is the time of year when we Jews read the story of “Yetzi’at Mitzrayim,” the Exodus from Egypt. (It is part of our yearly reading of the Torah, the Five Books of Moses.) The experience of slavery ...

Soon, we shall again be reading the story of Exodus. It’s a good story, whether it actually happened or not. Now there’s the current version, coming into Texas. Their problem is they don’t have Moses ...