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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 ...

God chose a Hebrew raised as an Egyptian to lead his people out of slavery. I was six when I found out my sister and I didn’t have the same father. I was six when I realized that someone could be ...

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, 'Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may ...

A king's pardon is possible when he rules by fiat, but a Jewish ruler is subject to the law ...