for having her song plagiarized. Exodus attributes the Song of the Sea to Moses, with Miriam’s rendition in Exod. 15:21 considered an antiphonal response. But a number of considerations support the ...

Hatikvah is an unusual national anthem. Its author, Naftali Hertz Imber, had many detractors, and was a plagiarist, drinker, gossip, and freeloader; the tune for Hatikvah was taken from a Romanian ...

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Certainly the movie is Hollywood’s burnished version, circa 1956, of the story of the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt 3,000 years ago. It’s the epochal event commemorated during ...