This week’s parsha, Vayeitzei, relates a powerful, primal vision of prayer: Jacob, alone and far from home, lies down for the night, with only stones for a pillow, and dreams of a ladder, with … more

Who am I?” This is the most powerful question. For many of us, there are no easy answers. We are uncertain of our own identities. Social scientists believe that this question is typically … more

Sefer Bereishit is all about our role models: Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, Leah and more. We learn from them our most basic values: Loving kindness and justice, truth and … more

For the first time in its 95-year history, AMIT has included men on its formerly all-female board of directors, a move that dovetails with a trend in America’s corporate boards … more

If you’re part of a Jewish family in the U.S., there’s a decent chance you grew up in the vicinity of a Joan Nathan cookbook. Her many books, including “Jewish Cooking in America,” have been … more

Nearly 300 people celebrated the silver anniversary of the Rachel’s Children Reclamation Foundation (RCRF) at a gala in the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center … more

I have lived in Israel for 17 years, and I have lived in the Gush Etzion region of Judea the entire time. To much of the world, that makes me a settler who lives on illegally occupied land. The … more

Jews from around the world made a pilgrimage to Hebron over the weekend to pay homage to the matriarch Sarah, whose death led to the purchase by her husband Abraham of a burial plot there, a … more

In a Norman Rockwell painting of a grandmother holding a platter filled with what must be a 30-pound turkey, the “everyone’s-grandmother” has rosy cheeks a loving smile and, … more

“Neither ox nor donkey can block the path to socialism,” the East German leader Erich Honecker boldly declared on Aug. 14, 1989. Less than three months later, on Nov. 9, the Berlin … more