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Exodus

1960's 'Exodus' is the featured film for this week's The Reel Schmooze. (courtesy)
April 25, 2026, 10:28 am
‘Exodus’: When Hollywood still loved the Jewish state
ToI’s movie maven and deputy editor on the 1960 Paul Newman vehicle that showed off the actor’s love of Israel — and his amazing blue eyes
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
A fragmentary statue of Pharaoh Ahmose I seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Wikipedia)
November 29, 2025, 9:47 am
Study anchors obscure pharaoh in time, opening research path into dating the Exodus
A PLOS ONE paper places Ahmose’s reign over Egypt decades after the famous Thera volcanic eruption in the Aegean Sea, with vast implications for the region’s history
By Rossella Tercatin
Twelve standing stones at the base of Mount Karkom, said by one expert to recall 'altar stones' described in the Bible. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 25, 2020, 1:45 pm
Ancient rock etchings on remote Negev plateau evoke the Bible, draw new interest
As Mount Karkom attracts increasing visitors, archaeologists try to protect a prehistoric art-filled site that a top researcher claims is Mount Sinai, complete with ‘burning bush’
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A lithograph, circa 1880, of a group of men, women, and children being taken to a slave market. (Wellcome collection)
March 29, 2019, 10:52 am
19th-cent. Slave Bible that removed Exodus story to repress hope goes on display
Censored texts were used by missionaries in the Caribbean colonies to emotionally manipulate the forced laborers who built the British Empire
By Ben Zehavi
Assistant professor of dendrochronology Dr. Charlotte Pearson in her lab at the University of Arizona. (Robert D. Demers)
August 23, 2018, 9:24 pm
New carbon-dating tool could pinpoint ancient eruption, gauge if tied to Exodus
Calibration technique aims to show exactly when Thera erupted on Santorini, some 4,000 years ago. Volcanic blast has been linked to rise and fall of civilizations, even the Plagues
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Joshua Hammerman
May 25, 2018, 6:14 pm
Joshua Hammerman
Ari Ben Portnoy
Are we the fighter or the kvetcher? The noble or the nebbish? The Philip Roth – Leon Uris battle still resonates
Selavan wants to give his tours combining Jewish text and ancient artifacts at museums around the world. (Debra Nussbaum Cohen/JTA)
March 30, 2018, 9:55 pm
A tour group leader uncovers Passover secrets in the Met Museum’s Egyptian wing
Nachliel Selavan, a Jewish educator and self-taught museum guide, looks at Jewish texts and history through ancient artifacts, showing that ‘the Bible doesn’t exist in a vacuum’
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
Actor Paul Newman in undated photo. (AP Photo)
October 28, 2017, 5:08 pm
Paul Newman’s watch auctioned for record $17.8 million
The watch, given to the actor by wife Joanne Woodward and inscribed with an admonition to ‘drive carefully,’ fetches world record price
By AFP
The Exodus ship (photo credit: Wikimedia commons)
July 9, 2017, 5:16 pm
France marks 70 years since ‘Exodus’ ship voyage to Israel
Survivors of journey that had profound influence on creation of Jewish state gather in Mediterranean port of Sete to mark anniversary
By Isabelle LIGNER
Yoseif Bloch
June 30, 2017, 4:00 pm
Yoseif Bloch
Up Shittim Creek
The Israelites built God’s house, but only after terrible divine rebuke reformed their excesses of whoring and idolatry
Ben Franklin's proposed design for the Great Seal of the United States included Moses parting the Red Sea. (Public domain)
April 16, 2017, 12:06 pm
When Moses almost parted the Red Sea on the Great Seal of the United States
New book contends Hebrew prophets influenced the Puritans who established America — and the patriots who led it to independence
By Rich Tenorio
Ruth Gruber, Alaska, 1941-43 (Unidentified photographer, courtesy)
November 18, 2016, 7:37 am
Trailblazing journalist who brought 1,000 Jewish refugees to US dies at 105
Ruth Gruber, who captured some of the most iconic photos of the SS Exodus in 1947, dreamed of a world ‘with no more refugees who require haven’
By ToI Staff and AP
The Exodus ship (photo credit: Wikimedia commons)
December 3, 2015, 5:26 am
Auction of flag from the ship Exodus called off
Banner from iconic vessel that carried Holocaust survivors to Israel has been bought by a public institution
By AFP
One of the 12 draft pages of Israel's Declaration of Independence banned by the Jerusalem District Court on November 29, 2015, from being sold at a public auction. (Courtesy of Kedem Auction House)
November 30, 2015, 3:00 am
State nixes $1 million auction of Declaration of Independence drafts
Court rules documents are public property, says ‘Israel’s inalienable assets’ must be protected
By Tamar Pileggi
Sisters at the Kalundu Center celebrating the Passover seder, with all of the ritual objects on the table including bitter herbs, handmade matzah, salt water, and grape juice. (photo credit: Courtesy Kalundu Center)
April 2, 2015, 1:26 pm
Why is this seder different from all other seders? Could be the nuns
In Zambia, Catholic sisters are in the habit of celebrating Passover meal, complete with matzah, bitter herbs and haroset, to connect to roots of Christianity and Easter
By Melanie Lidman
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