As we consider this week's Torah portion, we might also consider our own situations as present-day custodians and witnesses ...

Young religious Zionist Torah scholars connect Eretz Yisrael to the parasha. In Parashat Toldot, the Malbim explains that the ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Aderet Drucker, leader of the B'nai Shalom congregation in Walnut Creek, CA. Rabbi Drucker received her rabbinic ordination from The Jewish Theological Seminary in New ...

From the blog of Nathan Lopes Cardozo at The Times of Israel ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Robert Scheinberg of the United Synagogue in Hoboken, NJ. Rabbi Scheinberg, a graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, has been the rabbi of the United Synagogue since ...

If the parasha is a saga of inheritance, of blessings fought over and destinies forged, then the haftarah is its echo, ...

Yet I loved Yaakov and hated Esav, so I made his mountains desolate and gave his inheritance over to desert jackals” (Malakhi ...

As Jews of faith, we believe with certainty that history has a direction, and we exist within a long process whose end is the complete redemption of all humanity. In parashat Toldot, we read about the ...

בראשית כו:יח וַיָּ֨שָׁב יִצְחָ֜ק וַיַּחְפֹּ֣ר ׀ אֶת־בְּאֵרֹ֣ת הַמַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר חָֽפְרוּ֙ בִּימֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם אָבִ֔יו… Isaac dug anew the wells which ...

The matriarch was afraid for her son, but when that same anxiety is weaponized, as it has been recently, it's toxic - and ...

As Jacob leaves his parents’ home at the behest of his mother, Rebecca, the Torah declares that Rebecca was the mother of both Jacob and Esau (Genesis 28:5). At first blush, this seems to be an ...