It is hard to believe that I am writing again, while sitting shiva once again, this time for my older sister (by six years) ...

Rick Lupert, a poet, songleader and graphic designer, is the author of 28 books including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every ...

Parshat Vayishlach concludes with a list of Esau’s descendants. It is remarkable that the Torah dedicates 43 verses to ...

A young woman is gingerly applying lipstick for her upcoming date, unaware of the horrible fate awaiting her. This may sound ...

We have to be at peace with ourselves before we can be at peace with the world. THAT IS what happens in this week’s Torah ...

Rabbi Pinto recounts an inspiring story about the Chatam Sofer, whose unwavering faith saved the Jewish community from a ...

Precisely when a person sees himself in great need, after exhausting his actions and efforts, he must strengthen his faith, ...

In the aftermath, Barak felt utterly broken, and his closest family members couldn’t look him in the eye because the pain was ...

This week's Jerusalem Lights podcast focuses on our Torah portion of Vayishlach, which continues the adventures of the patriarch Yaakov, and demonstrates the sages' principle of "that which ...

In this week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, Jacob and Esau, twin brothers, live a life of contention, conspiracy, and treachery. Jacob lies to his father Isaac as he is dying. He steals his brother’s ...

Rachel’s influence was to unify Israel, to remind us to welcome and accept one another just as she was a mother to all Yaakov’s sons and her sons never treated any of the other brothers with disda ...