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

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

This week’s Torah portion, Toldot, offers one of the most memorable, and relatable, family sagas in our tradition: the story ...

Indeed, Esau’s willingness to trade something eternal for something fleeting remains intact even after he is nourished. He is ...

Polonius, in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is presented as sincere (the sincerity of the shallow), but also as an insufferably garrulous and “tedious old fool.” The character of Polonius is the one who says ...

Not to give in to impulses and the desire for immediate gratification but to steer it toward a higher purpose.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.-Sir John Lubbock Modern parents ...