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This Week's Torah Portion: Vayishlach

What's in a Name?: The Meaning Behind and Beyond What We Call Ourselves

The naming of Ya’akov twice in one parashah makes no sense. Rabbanit Alissa Thomas Newborn proposes three ideas behind this phenomenon, from the midrash to Shakespeare to the Eish Kodesh.

Rabbanit Alissa Thomas Newborn

On Chanukkah

Joy in a Time of Worry

Sources about how to celebrate Hanukkah during a time of heightened antisemitism

Rabbi Oren J. Hayon

On Talmud

Lighting vs Showing

A sugya (Talmudic passage) debating whether the mitzvah is to show the Hanukkah lights or to kindle the Hanukkah lights

Robbie Medwed

The Epstein School

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