This year 5779, as happens in about 85% of leap years (and solely in leap years), Parashat Vayikra coincides with Shabbat Zachor. “When He called to Moshe, Hashem spoke to him from the אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, ...

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Shabbat Zachor — the Sabbath of Remembering — calls on us to remember and reflect on events that are not the most pleasant of memories. It is the annual Shabbat preceding Purim when, in addition to ...

“Remember (in Hebrew, Zachor) what (the nation of) Amalek did to you (the Children of Israel), on the way, after you left Egypt. How he met you along the way, attacking the stragglers at the rear, ...

There are two different ways of reminding us that Purim is around the corner. One is the PR method, involving newspaper ads, thousands of fliers and large street banners, usually advertising the ...

This Shabbat immediately preceding Purim is Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembrance. We supplement the weekly Torah reading with the verses from Deuteronomy [25:17-19] where, at the end of his life ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Shul was packed last Shabbos – not because of a bar mitzvah or aufruf, but because on the last Shabbos before Purim, Shabbat Zachor, we read ...

The Song Shul invites you to join us for Shabbat Zachor and Neil Diamond & Neil Sedaka Shabbat service - a truly special musical treat. The well known, well loved, melodies of “the two Neils,” Diamond ...

Yes, Halloween has murky pagan origins. But its multibillion-dollar costume, decoration and candy industry has morphed so far beyond that, columnist Edmon J. Rodman decides to wade in. LOS ANGELES ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - A special evening with Zvi Bielski, son of Zus Bielski, a World War II hero whose story was depicted in the film "Defiance," will be held on Tuesday at the Joan and Alan Bernikow ...

Shabbat Zachor is upon us, when we have the Torah obligation to remember what Amalek did to us when we departed from Egypt. “Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were coming out of ...