Explore the significance of Jacob's dream in the Torah portion Vayetze, featuring the intriguing stairway to heaven.

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The story of every nation is the story of its leaders — and how they leave, writes the author of the forthcoming “The Torah of Leadership.” We often invoke the Hebrew phrase “l’dor v’dor,” from ...

Yiddish World Blog ties weekly Torah portion with works of Yiddish writers For last week’s portion, the blog matches the story of Jacob’s daughter Dina with a poem about her by the poet Itsik Manger.

As Yom Kippur ended, Jews emerged from their prayers and were confronted with a nightmare: at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, worshippers were violently attacked. A terrorist drove into them ...