After 9/11, when the horror and trauma had subsided, Americans found themselves asking what had happened and why. Was it a disaster? A tragedy? A
The American writer Bruce Feiler recently published a best-selling book entitled “The Secrets of Happy Families.” It’s an engaging work that uses research largely drawn
The question is ancient. If God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, then it was God who made Pharaoh refuse to let the Israelites go, not Pharaoh himself.
The opening chapters of Exodus plunge us into the midst of epic events. Almost at a stroke the Israelites are transformed from protected minority to
After the death of Jacob, Joseph’s brothers were afraid. Years earlier, when he had revealed his true identity to them, he appeared to have forgiven
There are rare and special moments when the world changes and a new possibility is born: when the Wright brothers in 1903 made the first
After 22 years and many twists and turns, Joseph and his brothers finally meet. We sense the drama of the moment. The last time they
This is a true story that took place in the 1970s. Rabbi Dr. Nahum Rabinovitch, then principal of Jews’ College, the rabbinic training seminary in
It is one of the most enigmatic episodes in the Torah, but also one of the most important, because it was the moment that gave
Why Jacob? That is the question we find ourselves asking repeatedly as we read the narratives of Genesis. Jacob is not what Noah was: righteous,
The Netziv (Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, 1816–1893, dean of the Yeshiva in Volozhin) made the astute observation that Isaac and Rebecca seem to suffer from
In 1966 an 11-year-old black boy moved with his parents and family to a white neighborhood in Washington. Sitting with his two brothers and two
