Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

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On Purim and we will read the story of how Haman, a descendant of Amalek, persuaded Achashveros, King of Persia, to destroy ...

Our enemies spread lies about Israel, portraying the victim as the aggressor. We must counter these lies with truth, ...

Without remembering past events, we are doomed to repeat the same fatal mistakes. This has been proven endlessly over the ...

If there is a message for this Purim, for this moment in history, it is this the story of the Jewish people is not just a ...

Every year, on the Sabbath before Purim, men, women, and children gather silently in the sanctuary to hear these haunting ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on Purim and Jewish-Christian dialogue. Purim starts tonight and ...

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print Copy Link Purim, one of the most joyous and dramatic holidays in the Jewish calendar, commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from a genocidal plot in ...

The main feast should be on Friday, and it's advisable to schedule it for morning or early afternoon, or to "connect" it with ...

Though more Hamans would continue to arise, the Jewish people would survive and celebrate countless Purims in a new Promised ...

The Talmud in Tractate Gittin 57B teaches that the direct descendants of Haman the Amalekite (who lived in ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago) eventually became students of Torah in Bnei Brak in the ...