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This is a counter-argument to those who believe that the Hebrews / nation of Israel never spent time in Egypt in bondage. The presence of so many Egyptian names among prominent figures in the Bible ...

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Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by Benjamin Moser is a one-dimensional appraisal of the Jewish people’s broken home.

If you spend enough time on social media, you’re likely going to come across claims about Hebrew that will make your head spin: Hebrew is a European language. Hebrew is actually stolen Arabic. There ...

All cultures have a tendency to make their building blocks into part of a collective myth, oversimplifying them in textbooks and in the collective consciousness of their members. We Jews are hardly ...

In a recent piece in these pages, I addressed a popular myth: that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazar pagans who converted to Judaism. Though this idea gets a lot of attention, it is fully based ...