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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

I have always been saddened by the fact that Holocaust victims have no headstone, no matzeiva. You can’t visit a cemetery and see a tombstone over a grave for them as one does for all others. Yet I ...

In Parashat Vayishlach, Ya’akov is returning home. Twenty years earlier, he tricked his father, stole the blessing from his brother, Esav, and ran away. For 20 years he has held onto the hope that, ...

Parashat Vayishlach opens with our father Ya’akov’s return home to his Land, Canaan, the Land which would later be named for him, the Land of Israel: וַיִּשְׁלַח יַעֲקֹב מַלְאָכִים לְפָנָיו אֶל עֵשָׂו ...

Our guest this week is Rabbi Pam Frydman. Rabbi Frydman was the spiritual leader and founder of Or Shalom Jewish Community in San Francisco and also served as Interim Rabbi of Congregation P’nai ...

Parashat Vayishlach: Eternal struggle This most enigmatic encounter of Jacob wrestling with a mystery “man” arouses many questions. Who is this unnamed adversary with whom Jacob struggles all night ...