Bruce Feiler

30 Mar It’s “Moses Week” in America

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This Saturday, millions of Americans will watch the annual spectacle of Charlton Heston acting the part of a Cold War hero in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." The TV air date is no accident. This week, beginning with Passover and ending with Easter, is...

28 Mar Seder Talking Points: Seven Secrets of Passover

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Passover is the national holiday of my in-laws. Every spring, my mother-in-law hosts 35 people on one night, and a different 35 people the second night for a ritualized retelling of the Israelites' escape from slavery in Egypt. But the centrality of this...

05 Oct It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Moses!

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Superman was based on him, Charlton Heston played him, and politicians quote him—Moses is as American as apple pie. My take in The Daily Beast....

18 Aug Charlton Heston the Face of the U.S.A.? How Moses Was Chosen for the Great Seal

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THIS WEEK IN MOSES: The biblical hero becomes the face of America. Immediately after approving the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress formed a committee to design a new seal for the United States. As proof of its importance,...

30 Mar It’s “Moses Week” in America

28 Mar Seder Talking Points: Seven Secrets of Passover

05 Oct It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Moses!

18 Aug Charlton Heston the Face of the U.S.A.? How Moses Was Chosen for the Great Seal

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