So today I was wishing people a “freileche Purim”. We said Psalm 100, Mizmor Lesoda, after davening. And I don’t think we should say tachanun today.

In the original Purim miracle, the ten sons of the evil Haman met their end, and in the current miracle, the twelve disciples of the Ayatollah have met theirs (see link from Wall Street Journal here).

Following US strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, backed by President Donald Trump, Jewish communities across Israel offered ...

This year will mark the first Purim since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. This conflict officially began Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the biblical significance behind the name of Israel's military ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

In these turbulent times, when the Middle East is literally on fire with missiles from modern-day Persia and fighter planes ...

The U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites is the latest in the Israel-Iran conflict that some say echoes the biblical enemy ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

Today, readers of the Bible are reading their newspapers and seeing history repeat itself. Centuries after Haman’s genocidal antisemitism, the ruler of Iran (the modern name of ancient Persia), Ali ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...