Esau McCaulley has been caught between multiple identities his whole life. Family legend has it that his grandfather couldn’t read, and when it came time to pick a baby name for McCaulley’s ...

Jacob and Esau. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any ...

When Jacob and Esau meet again, they are changed (Gen 33). Esau embraces his brother, kissing him and through tears. Jacob tells Esau that seeing his face is like seeing the face of God.

Esau McCaulley (Author) Convergent Books. 240 pages. ... I aimed to appeal to young Black boys and girls considering the same options given to me and carrying traumas like the ones I’d experienced.

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.

Gen. 32:16, listing the gifts that Jacob offered Esau when returning to the land of Israel from Mesopotamia, where he had established a family in his uncle Laban’s domain, writes: ...