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The Book of Esther is a story with something for everyone: court intrigue, sexual manipulation, and cunning plots foiled just in the nick of time. Depending on one’s point of view, the book can be ...

With Election Day weeks away, both parties are reaching out to people of faith, as those with some religious affiliation are still a large percentage of Americans voters, having with a huge impact.

There is a famous Hebrew adage “Sof ganav Li’tliyah,” which translates to “the end of a thief — hanging.” And, indeed, this applies to people such as Haman the Agagite, Adolf Hitler, the big Nazi ...

History and faith can teach us many things if we are willing to listen and learn. If we are brave enough to have them, discussions of these topics can be messy. The lessons learned are not always ...

The Jewish calendar is replete with dates that bear the mark of national memory. Thus, for example, the festival of Purim we just celebrated has come to symbolize the survival of the Jewish people in ...

Benjamin Netanyahu leavened his powerful account of what's really at stake in the nuclear negotiations with Iran with a little history and a little wisdom from the Bible. And why not? The war against ...

The fast of Queen Esther, the heroine of the Purim story, has become a day devoted to improving the status of agunot, women whose husbands refuse to grant them a Jewish divorce. RAMAT GAN, Israel, ...

One of the puzzling halakhot of Purim is Shushan Purim. Jews living in Jerusalem and other towns that have been surrounded by a wall since the days of Yehoshua Bin Nun celebrate on the fifteenth of ...