Tag: Exodus

Weiss, a boatswain and carpenter, was one of dozens of American Jewish volunteers aboard the ship that left France in July 1947. It was carrying more than 4,500 Holocaust survivors who sought to immigrate to Palestine in violation of British policy. Jewish philanthropists from Baltimore and Washingt...

Exodus is our Jewish’s people’s origin story, the one that transitions the Torah from a family to a nation’s story. We retell it every year at Passover when it’s said to have happened: the Jewish month of Nissan. The astrology of this time frame can reveal another layer. Niss...