Purim

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a greeting on the Jewish holiday of Purim on Sunday, saying that the holiday’s message of triumph over genocidal enemies held an enduring relevance for Israel’s military battles today.

Jérusalem (AFP) — Just over half of Israel’s population has had at least a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, the health ministry said Friday in its latest update. It said that 4.65 million of the country’s 9.29 million

Every year around the time of Purim, churches and synagogues around the world dive back into the book of Esther, where we hear of a courageous young Jewish woman in exile saving her people, who were put in danger because of her uncle’s unbending integrity in the face of pagan tyranny. But is that story really what we read–or merely what we’ve read *into* this unique book of the Bible?

Seven Jewish schools in Baltimore, Maryland, have announced that all events surrounding the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim would be cancelled amid coronavirus fears.

TEL AVIV – Jews use the blood of non-Jews to bake Hamentashen pastries for Purim, a former Hamas official charged in an article published on Tuesday, the eve of the Jewish holiday.

A new wave of anti-Semitic bomb threats targeted at least six Jewish community centers nationwide Sunday, forcing evacuations of many of these venues, including one in Houston.

Dozens of bereaved families across the country attended a Purim costume party in Jerusalem held by the OneFamily organization.

Iran’s parliament speaker on Sunday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison of the ancient Persians who sought the annihilation of the Jews in the Purim story to modern-day Iran, advising the Israeli premier to study history and the Jewish Bible.

Israel will close off the West Bank from Friday until Sunday as a preventative measure against attacks during the Jewish festival of Purim, the IDF announced on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – In what could have been the diplomatic gaffe of the century, 15,000 Israeli army costumes were nearly sent to Tehran instead of Tel Aviv.

Arutz Sheva reports: Fifteen young Poles who only recently learned they have Jewish roots arrived in Israel for the first time, under the auspices of the Shavei Israel organization for a visit from March 21 to 27 to experience the joyous

TEL AVIV – Belgian authorities have asked local Jewish communities to cancel celebrations of the Jewish festival of Purim and stay in their homes following Tuesday’s attacks in Brussels, the Israeli daily Ma’ariv reported. Two large Purim events in the capital were cancelled, and Jewish schools

The Jerusalem Post reports: Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, has called on Muslims all over the world, especially those living in Jerusalem and Arab Israelis, to make pilgrimage to al-Aksa in order to defend the mosque from

The Jerusalem Post reports: A five-year-old boy from Jerusalem took his Purim costume a little too seriously this year when, dressed up as a charity box, he decided to swallow coins, Channel Two reported Tuesday. Upon noticing that the young