Abraham. Isaac. Jacob. Joseph. Moses. Women featured in the stories often take a backseat to the patriarchs. In “After the Apple,” an examination of stories from the Hebrew Bible ...

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob weren’t really Jewish ... In fact, according to the rabbinical definition of Judaism, the national hero: Joseph Trumpeldor; a man who was one of the founders of ...

These chapters center on the lives of Abraham and two of his descendants, Jacob and Joseph. Isaac appears also, though only briefly. But what are these narratives all about? Here there is ...

Among Israel’s great patriarchs — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — Isaac is something of a transitional figure. That doesn’t make him unimportant, but he is transitional. He’s important ...

Along this route, you are walking on the actual road Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and King David walked on multiple times. Today this area (liberated by the IDF during the 1967 Six Day War ...

Ninety years have passed, and they were still assuming that Joseph would kill them after the death of their father. At the famed encounter of Jacob with Esau upon the former’s return ...

[12] Not by accident were Abraham-and-Sarah, Isaac-and-Rebekah, and Jacob-and-Rachel, unable to have children by natural means. Nor was it mere happenstance that God promised the holy land to a ...