According to Hebrew texts, 12 tribes once occupied the Land of Israel. Formed by descendants of the patriarch Jacob (later named Israel), these tribes went on to live, fight, conquer, and be conquered ...

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jacob has returned to Israel, made up with Esau, gone through a disastrous event when his daughter, Dinah, is raped, and his ...

Each week, Ari Sliffman, a Jewish legal mediator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will discuss the week’s Parshah “through the ...

I have often argued that the episode in which the Jewish people acquired its name – when Jacob wrestled with an unnamed ...

Amitai once thought his grandma was a wrestler, since she had watched her grandson Darius wrestle, not realizing that she’s far more like a Tesla, by her ...

The Book of Genesis shares the intriguing and familiar story of twin brothers, Jacob and Esau, the sons of Isaac. Jacob ...