In fourth grade we learned Parshat Vayechi. My teacher had us memorize all of the blessings that Yaakov bestowed upon his ...

“Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And Shechem, son of Chamor the Chivite, the prince of the land, saw her and he took her and lay with her ...

Get Vermont news sent to your inbox. Daily Digger is everything you need to know to start your day, delivered Monday-Saturday morning. James Haaf of Windsor, who has researched the lives of Dinah ...

When Anita Diamant’s novel “The Red Tent” hit bookstores in 1997, Jewish women couldn’t devour it fast enough. The book focuses on Jacob and Leah’s daughter Dinah, who only gets one sentence in the ...

Chapter 31 So, I guess that whole “one God” concept hasn’t really taken with the patriarchal families. When Jacob and his family leave Laban’s house, Rachel steals her father’s “household idols,” ...

Assistant Judge Stephen Jacob recused himself in an 1802 Vermont Supreme Court case that hinged on whether he owned a slave. Photo by Mark Bushnell (“Then Again” is Mark Bushnell’s column about ...

The men of The Bible are many: Adam, Cain, Abel, and Noah; Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Moses, Aaron, Joshua, and Caleb; Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Job. There are Jesus's 12 ...

Despite a few recent missteps with biopics, Lifetime has re-entered the land of original programming with their newest two-part miniseries The Red Tent, which premieres on Sunday night. The Red Tent ...

There’s nothing like a sprinkle of soap to humanize an epic built on characters from the Bible. “The Red Tent” is a faithful dramatization of Anita Diamant’s 1997 book, in which Diamant took a minor ...