In Vayishlach, this week’s Torah portion, the third patriarch’s name gets changed during a famous encounter. Or does it?

The violence of brothers hating each other and even killing one another –which we are witnessing in Israel and Palestine in ...

While reading Parshat Vayishlach this year, I was struck by the imbalance between speech and silence and what it suggests ...

This week’s Torah portion, Vayishlach, deposits us into the dramatic ongoing narrative of Jacob’s life, as he prepares to ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

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This week’s Torah portion is Vayera: Genesis 18:1 – 22:24 The first Shabbat after daylight standard time always comes as a shock to the system, despite the fact that it occurs every year. Preparing to ...

Every Shabbos, Jews in synagogues of all denominations hear the cantor, rabbi or a layperson chant that week’s Torah portion from an open scroll. But Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker says you don’t need ...

A bill seeking to speed up the long-awaited project to widen Highway 37 in the North Bay has been signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, supporters announced. Assembly Bill 697 by Asm. Lori Wilson ...

The restaurant is offering smaller, lower-priced portions on seven entrees. Olive Garden has begun experimenting with a “lighter portion” section of its menu, the restaurant's parent chain announced ...

My idea was to use this program to convert vobsub to SRT. I used the following command to burn the vobsub subtitles for OCR recognition, while blanking the video portion: for %i in (*.mkv) do ...

(RNS) — The Jewish attitude toward foreign-born people, who often have risked their lives to come here, legally or otherwise, is one of mercy and concern. (RNS) — No one knows who wrote the Jewish ...