"To receive but not to give is, in Jewish geography as well as Jewish psychology, simply not life," said Rabbi Jonathan Sachs ...

Wherever we travel, wherever we find ourselves in this vast world, all we have to do is pay attention, look around, maybe put ...

The folk singer Tom Lehrer penned a famous ditty in which he alluded to spending Jewish holidays in places where the name of ...

Step one – as epitomized by Purim – is the struggle to bring the Jews together, to unite as a loving community, albeit in a ...

Purim is hardly over, and the true faces of the haters and loathers have already been revealed. Not so long ago, it was ...

A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has ended. But even as peace in the region seems out of reach, a group of Twin ...

I dread the chometz cleaning but with the Spring season almost here and longer days of sunlight, it makes it less stressful.

the end of the Purim story can no longer tenably be read as fantasy or comedy. Whether we like it or not, whether we stare directly at it or look away, whatever our relationship to Israel might be ...

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish ...

Critics of Israel’s military actions have in many cases imposed ideological ... The brick-and-mortar Isaac’s Bagels opened in ...

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish child walks through the streets in costume during the Purim festival celebrations in Bnei Brak, ...

Jerusalem hosted its annual Purim parade on Sunday, celebrating the Jewish holiday that commemorates the biblical story of ...