In the wake of Donald Trump’s first week as President, the Democrats opposing him are reported to be stunned, paralyzed, and ...

From the days of Cain and Abel, it's been clear that not all siblings will be besties. But as a parent, it still hurts when I find my kids less than loving or downright mean to each other.

From the beginning of time, the Torah records how brothers have been at odds. Jealousy between Cain and Abel led to murder. Unresolved rivalry between Isaac and Ishmael continues to haunt us.

Rashi speculated that the single frog was a proliferating piñata of an amphibian. When struck in anger, the frog exploded ...

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Biblically, a catastrophe can be seen as a consequence of a mockery. In 2025 and 2023, two mockeries and two catastrophes took place existentially; and a third ...

Adam’s oldest son, Cain, kills his younger brother, Abel. God, like he did with Adam, tries to elicit a confession. God asks Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” Not only does he not confess ...

Yahweh gives him the opportunity to repent. Instead, Cain murders his brother, Abel. Thus we have the failure of a first-born son who is supposed to have a priestly primacy in the family after the ...

Not long ago, I wrote a book about the political science of Moses as written into law in the form of the Ten Commandments. Moses and his people suffered under ...

this often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of ...