When it last awoke in 2014, Bardarbunga produced Iceland’s biggest eruption in more than 200 years, spewing out fountains of lava hundreds of feet high. Scientists in Iceland have their eyes on this ...

Both in Torah and in contemporary tragedies, confronting death can bring us closer to understanding our true values.

Sibling rivalry, a term popularized by David Levy in 1941, describes the aggressive response older siblings often have to a ...

Explore the intricate layers of Jewish history and its connections to the broader narrative of world events and identities.

So of course I was eager to see the new movie “Song Sung Blue,” a kind of jukebox tear-jerker loosely based on the story of a ...

The transition from family to something more begins when Jacob wrestles — physically and spiritually — and emerges ...

This week’s Torah portion Vayechi brings the book of Genesis to a close. We spent the whole fall and winter so far reading about the difficult and complex relationships within ...

What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each parent’s and child’s personality, needs, and circumstance vary so widely.

The Torah describes the emotional upheaval, the sharp transition from deep sorrow to astonishment and joy, when Jacob ...

Adah: The wife of Esau, and the second woman mentioned in the Bible, after Eve. Julia: The name of a young Christian woman ...

Jewish tradition honors Joseph as Yosef HaTzaddik — Joseph the Righteous One — precisely because of his capacity to change: ...