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This past Sabbath in the Jewish calendar was known as Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembering. It was the Sabbath that precedes the holiday of Purim, which Jews around the world celebrate this week ...

With Pharaoh and the Egyptian army in hot pursuit, the Children of Israel face the Sea of Reeds in this week’s Torah portion of B’shalach. Walking through the water that had miraculously split before ...

One of the frequent memes in the vexing debate about how to restrain Tehran from getting a nuclear bomb is the religious figure of Amalek. My colleague Jeffrey Goldberg, in trying to explain Israeli ...

“No,” they say. “There are people who do evil things, but they are not necessarily evil people.” “OK,” I ask. “Are there good people?” “Oh, yes!” they say. Then, they proceed to name as many as they ...

This week’s Torah portion of Terumah gives expression to the Creator’s desire to be welcomed into this world – and this changes everything. The message of G-d’s desire that we create a Mikdash – a ...

“You must ‘remember what Amalek has done to you,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admonished on October 28, announcing the “second phase,” a ground invasion, of Israel’s war in Gaza. Amalek, ...

The Jews’ most formidable enemy in Biblical times was the nation of Amalek. This nation was, and symbolically still is, the personification of evil, brutality, racism and anti-Semitism. Amalek is ...

These days, many liberal Jews think of Purim as a play date for the kids and a night of drunken debauchery for the grown-ups. We think of costumes and songs and noisemakers, a kind of carnival spirit.