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Exodus: Gods and Kings

You don’t have to wait until Passover to dig into Judaism’s founding liberation narrative By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer If Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings left you feeling stood up at the Tabernacle, you’re not alone. Rottentomatoes.com indicates that 72 percent of mainstream media critics have panned

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Hollywood’s depiction of the Exodus spans nine decades By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer Hollywood has had its share of big-budget biblical flops, but until now, the Exodus narrative has not been among them. Studios have brought Moses to the big screen sparingly, but in ways that defined the

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