In the foreign land of Canaan lives Isaac, son of Abraham, with his clever, strong-willed wife Rebekah and his twin sons Esau and Jacob. The first-born, Esau, is a strong and fearless hunter with ...

They name him “Hairy.” Then, just a few verses later, Esau’s twin brother Jacob is making a red lentil stew, and Esau asks for some of that red stuff to gulp down. The scripture then tells ...

In the book of Genesis, the twins Jacob and Esau were born to Isaac and Rebecca ... At the height of its popularity in 2012, ...

I was thrilled when our synagogue assigned bnei mitzvah Torah portions and our twins got “Toldot,” the coming-of-age story of the first biblical twins, Jacob and Esau. Then I re-read it.

Jacob and Esau get the headlines: the smooth wheeler-dealer who becomes the father of the Israelites and his hairy, oafish twin who gets tricked out of his birthright for a bowl of soup.

Even before they were born, Jacob and Esau struggled in the womb. They were destined, it seems, to be eternal adversaries. Not only were they different in character and appearance. They also held ...