While reading Parshat Vayishlach this year, I was struck by the imbalance between speech and silence and what it suggests about power and action.

This week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, deposits us into the dramatic ongoing narrative of Jacob’s life, as he prepares to ...

In the Torah we are taught to love God, “with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might” “b’khol levav’kha, b’khol nafsh’kha, uvkhol m’odekha”. This is a totalistic demand, certainly ...

In this week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, the Torah tells us that after Yaakov’s struggle with Esav’s angel, “the sun rose upon him” (Genesis 32:32). This simple statement harbors deep meaning, ...

It's how we treat each other that will determine whether we survive, flourish, and remain a worthy people - or fail ...

In a 1980 lecture on Parshat Vayishlach, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik explored the idea that just as each holiday’s Torah reading has its own special motif, so, too, each parsha in the Torah has its ...

These 15 stories by Jonas Kreppel feature the “Yiddish Sherlock Holmes” who saves Jews from various plights within the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the early 20th century.

Thank you, Jacob. For what, you might ask? For reminding us never to miss a chance to do good, to say a kind word, to act with intention while we still have the gift of “now.” In one simple act, Jacob ...

THAT IS what happens in this week’s Torah portion. After his wrestling match with the stranger, Jacob undergoes a change of personality, a transformation. He gives back to Esau the blessing he took ...

A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound like the description of a new Netflix drama but it’s actually a scene in a ...