The snipe is a beautifully camouflaged bird with a Pinocchio beak. It inhabits marshlands in Europe, Asia, and New Zealand.

As one example, the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke (15:11-32) about the two brothers and their father and the story in Genesis 25-33 about the brothers Jacob and Esau, their father Isaac, and ...

Echoes of that story resonate in this Torah portion as Isaac, Rebecca, Esau, and Jacob engage in a painful choreography that ...