Jacob Wrestles with Angel

I doubt if the stirring cry "Never again," has, on its own, dissuaded even one young man or woman from assimilating. If the only message our children hear is "remain Jewish, because of the Holocaust" wouldn't this, if anything, propel the process of assim...

Just because 4,000 years ago one of my ancestors had a hip dislocated, I need to forgo a good rump steak?

We are far more willing to tolerate differences with those who validate us than with those who don't. In a friend's hands such trust can enhance a relationship; but in the hands of a foe such trust can be cunningly exploited...

How we inject spirituality into the butchering process

Indeed, in any one individual there can nestle both a resister and an affirmer, at the same time. At one point the resister is dominant; at another, the affirmer.

"No longer shall your name be called Jacob," said Esau's angel. "No longer shall your name be called Jacob," G-d reiterated. Yet the Torah continues to call him Jacob...

A "dispassionate materialist"? Clearly a fraud

And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn. When he saw that he could not prevail against him, he touched the socket of his hip, and the socket of Jacob's hip became dislocated as he wrestled with him. And he (the angel)...