My Hebrew name is Ya’akov, Hebrew for Jacob. When I celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah years ago at the age of 13, the observance coincidentally coincided with readings in the Torah about the life of ...

Imagine you are at a wide open assemblage of all types of people. Strewn across the scene, there are entertainers and artists, entrepreneurs and scholars of every interest and field. Everyone is there ...

Parashat Toldot tells the story of two twin brothers, the sons of Isaac and Rebecca: Esau and Jacob. The parasha opens with a pregnant Rebecca, in much discomfort. And the sons struggled inside her ...

Why would that be so? After twenty years of childlessness, Rivka (Rebecca)and Yitzchak (Isaac) are blessed with twin boys. Yet even this much awaited pregnancy is difficult . "And the children ...

IN 1997 Gary Paul Morson, an American professor of Slavic literature, reflected on the work of Constance Garnett, the translator who introduced Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky to the English-speaking ...

We all know that America is deeply divided, and our bodily politic suffers from wounds that will not easily mend. In this cold, dark season, it would be easy to despair for our national future. Yet ...