This tension between the heroes of Rome and the sages of Jerusalem will not last forever. The prophet Obadiah prophesied the resolution of this struggle. Jews do not accept the world that is. They ...
A swirling eddy of pain, love, loss, regret, resentment, hope, reconciliation – core experiences of human beings – forms into the vortex of this week’s Torah portion, Vayigash. Joseph was ...
In our Torah portion, Va-Yishlach, we have one of the most dramatic and vivid scenes in the Bible – Jacob wrestling with an angel. Except, in our Torah portion, it is never written that Jacob ...
This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a poem inspired by the parshah (Torah portion) Vayishlach, in which Jacob’s daughter Dina is abducted ...
At the end of the previous Torah portion, we read about Jacob’s sons traveling to Egypt to buy food due to the famine in Canaan. Joseph, the viceroy of Egypt and overseer of food distribution ...
According to the New York Post, a lawsuit has been filed against Arby's, accusing the fast food giant of reducing the portion sizes on two of their staple menu items, but not lowering the prices.
The Ibn Ezra explains the following: "The verse mentions the purchase of land to inform us that having a portion of the Land is like having a portion of the World to Come." 1. What is the ...