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 ...

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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 greatest enemy of the Jewish people was the nation of Amalek. When the Jewish people left Egypt, Amalek attacked the weak and weary stragglers at the rear of the Jewish camp. They were the first ...

The Shabbat immediately preceding Purim is Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat of Remembrance, on which, in the Maftir (the final reading of the Torah), we remember Amalek’s attack on us in the Sinai Desert: ...

What is the origin of evil? Or, more precisely, why do people do evil things? We Jews often pose these questions in terms of biblical narratives. Torah is understood as the soul’s code of the Jewish ...

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 ...

Rabbi and Mrs. Yisrael Meir Lau. Standing: Chazzan and Mrs. Yosef Malovaney. Amazing, unbelievable, awe-inspiring. Those were just some of the comments I heard over Shabbat Parshat Zachor at a weekend ...