Why does the Torah begin with the Genesis story? If it is a book of Law, ask the rabbis, why not start with the first commandment? On an individual level, perhaps it teaches us that just as God first ...

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

Explore the significance of Jacob's dream in the Torah portion Vayetze, featuring the intriguing stairway to heaven.

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

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

This annual cosmic rewind and the rereading of Genesis gives us all a chance to deepen our thinking about the stories we heard as children about the dangers of snakes and fruit trees, about curiosity ...

As Jews we learn to live with the contradictions that sometimes haunt us. (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Everyone has at least a few creation stories: how they were born, how they came to the career ...

Every summer, Brandeis University becomes a vibrant hub for pluralistic Jewish learning through Genesis, a three-week precollege program that brings together high school students from across the globe ...

The public can vote until Oct. 26 for one of seven prize finalists: Sacha Baron Cohen, Barbra Streisand, Elena Kagan, Gal Gadot, Jonathan Sacks, Marc Benioff or Steven Spielberg. Doron Almog, a former ...