It’s called ‘Va-Yechi’: And Jacob lived ….’. For, although it is about death, it’s also about life. Jacob lived until the age ...

Hopes which are destroyed cause deeper despair than complete hopelessness. The Jews had hoped for a new Pharaoh who would ...

As a young man, Goethe visited Jewish schools in Frankfurt, and even attended a circumcision and a Jewish wedding ...

Ah, Lilith. She's the name that's lingered in whispers for centuries. According to the Jewish Women’s Archive, Lilith’s ...

Do our God/gods cover extraterrestrials also, or is their domain limited to us humans on the earth? The Faith Forum panel ...

After God reassures Moses that God will be with him, the prophet learns that he will also have his brother Aaron by his side, ...

But careful who you call what, cautions Kaomi Joy Taylor, founder of the Museum of Names and president of the Names Alliance, ...

“The Fourth Revolution” is a concept Ginsburg has been advancing in recent years: expanding Torah and Jewish learning to ...

The final paradoxical line — that they should “grow abundantly like fish within the land” — ties it all together. Fish ...

The midrash portrays this as a flaw. Redemption, it claims, comes because of the merit of the patriarchs—not because of Moses ...

In the scriptural portion that was read this past week in Jewish congregations the patriarch Jacob, on his deathbed, speaks ...

The verb va-yach (“he struck”) is also significant. It shares its root with makot, the plagues. Moses strikes first; God ...