Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature have allocated $14.5 million to sustain the state’s Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program, which provides essential services to more than 2,000 ...

When Motty returned to Israel from the trip, he continued to sing and play music at events, and sometimes used to sing the Hashgacha Pratit song, but with his own words. Instead of “hashgacha pratit ...

If Jim Henson and Fred Rogers could connect with kids through puppets, why couldn’t Shlomit Tripp? “It’s really important that these kids understand that being Jewish is also fun,” Tripp said. “It’s ...

Among the countless treasures that have emerged from the world of Jewish creativity, few genres are as whimsical, erudite, and mischievously reverent as Purim Torah – that peculiar and ...

In Jewish tradition, no enemy looms larger — or carries more theological weight — than Amalek. Described in the Bible as the first nation to attack the Israelites after the Exodus, the Amalekites came ...

Following US strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, backed by President Donald Trump, Jewish communities across Israel offered special prayers of thanks, calling it a historic turning point and a ...

In March, a video emerged of Gerami reading from the Book of Esther and dancing with students at the Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in the city of Hamadan for the holiday of Purim. The tradition that ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther.

Reckless rites : Purim and the legacy of Jewish violence by Horowitz, Elliott S Publication date 2006 Topics Bible. Esther -- Criticism, interpretation, etc, Violence -- Religious aspects -- Judaism - ...