The scroll of Esther seems historic, not just allegoric. It says very clearly that Haman wanted to kill and exterminate all Jews. He got permission from the Persian King to order the slaughter of all ...

In her debut book, ‘The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic,’ Gila Fine, a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall has written three columns over the past month about a Holocaust remembrance where a rabbi’s remarks were censored in Columbia. This is his most personal yet.

A certain rabbi in a small Jewish village in Russia has gained the reputation of being holy. According to the townsfolk, he leaves his community each Friday morning and ascends to heaven to speak ...

Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch & Rabbi Eyal SalmanJCC Chabad Jewish Community of Kiev "How can Jewish life be maintained behind bars during wartime?" — This question was at the heart of a special ...

Chat Cola, a Salfit-based mom-and-pop business rebranded as 'Palestinian flavor,' cashes in as anti-US mood sweeps Middle East ...

He often makes his readers laugh, mad, or assume he's nuts—close to perfect ... lehavdil bein chayim lechayim, Rabbi Dr. Natan Lopes Cardozo, Rav Zev Leff, and Rav Meir Lubin.

“No one wants to be caught drinking Coke,” said Mad Asaad, 21, a worker at the bakery-cafe chain Croissant House in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which stopped selling Coke after the war ...

Speaking to Rudaw’s Dilkhwaz Mohammed on Wednesday, Rabbi Yousef Hamra said he had returned to Damascus after 33 years of being forced to leave. “I am the first Jew to return to Syria.

Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, was questioned by Israel Police on suspicion of committing an indecent act against a minor under the age of 16 and subsequently released on ...