The Torah in parshat Vayakhel—which describes the making of the Mishkan—goes out of its way to emphasise the role women played in it: “The men

Witnessing the birth of a new idea is a little like watching the birth of a galaxy through the Hubble Space Telescope. We can witness

Why is the Torah so specific and emphatic, in this week’s Parsha, about the clothes to be worn by the Kohanim (Priests) and the Kohen

Listen to these words that are among the most fateful and reverberating in all of Jewish history: “Joseph recognised his brothers, but they did not

One of the most fundamental questions about the Torah turns out to be one of the hardest to answer. What, from the call of God

Why is Jacob, the father of our people, the hero of our faith? We are “the congregation of Jacob,” “the children of Israel.” Yet it

What kind of man was Jacob? This is the question that cries out to us in episode after episode of his life. The first time

Even before they were born, Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb. They were destined, it seems, to be eternal adversaries. Not only were they

Abraham—the Sages were convinced—was a greater religious hero than Noah. We hear this in the famous dispute among the Sages about the phrase that Noah

There is an image that haunts us across the millennia, fraught with emotion. It is the image of a man and his son walking side-by-side,

So familiar are we with the story of Abraham that we do not always stop to think about what a strange turn it is in

I once had the opportunity to ask the Catholic writer, Paul Johnson, what had struck him most about Judaism, during the long period he spent