I was just about to pass over Passover. My husband Paul and I had been invited to two seders in Los Angeles, but one was a rock and the other was a hard place. At the former, there would be three ...

In Exodus chapters 10–11, three more horrible plagues from God affect Egypt. Pharaoh hardens his heart twice, and finally relents only after the death of the firstborn. These are the last three ...

In his book Disasters of Biblical Proportions: The Ten Plagues Then, Now, and at the End of the World, Weitzman (a professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages and literature at the University of ...

Steven Weitzman, a professor of Jewish Studies and religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, examines how people use the biblical story of the 10 plagues to make sense of catastrophe in ...