The 10 Plagues are among the most iconic miracles in the Torah – right alongside the splitting of the Red Sea. But two questions naturally arise: Why 10? And why these specific 10? The honest answer ...

The Greek word “plague” (plege) is used 16 times in the book of Revelation, but twice we get a count of plagues. The hyacinth army of Revelation 9 breathes out the “three plagues” of fire, smoke, ...

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 ...

Many of us may be uncomfortable with the sweeping destruction of the Ten Plagues as we recite them at the seder — particularly the final plague, the death of the firstborn, which the Torah takes pains ...

Want to add some zing to your Passover seder? David Kedson’s book, “The Ten Plagues of Cocktails,” may be just what you need. Filled with detailed instructions for creating the 10 plague-themed ...

During a Passover Seder most Jews remove a few drops of wine from their goblets at the mention of each of the ten plagues that struck the Egyptians; thus symbolically reducing the joy of our ...

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 ...