The Iranians ruined Purim, wept my young son. How explain to him that in the skies over Persia, and from India to Ethiopia, the Megillah is coming true again, word for word? A story of resilience and faith.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife, Sara, and son, Yair, attend a Purim Megillah reading at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva library, where a terrorist murdered eight students.
If a siren sounds while we are reading the Megillah and we pause, do we start again or continue from where we left off?
Megillat Esther never once mentions G-d; Parashat Tetsave does not mention Moses; Amalek seemed to have disappeared from history. But G-d gives us the discernment to perceive them all.
Start the Party: Learning from an uncouth dictator How to celebrate Life.
“So the king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month — that is, the month of Sivan — on the twenty-third day of it; and it was written according to all that Mordechai commanded…” (Esther 8:9). And the 23rd of Sivan is tomorrow.
The stories of Moshe, Eliyahu and Esther reiterate the role of humanity to take responsibility, and for leaders to stay connected to their people.
The battle between Haman and Mordechai is the primeval, age-old battle between Amalek and Torah, between lust and morality, over which is the foundation of the world, and it began in the Garden of Eden.
Captivity survivor Agam Berger calls on the public to attend a Megillah reading at Hostages Square. "Together, we will reverse the lot and bring back our 59 brothers and sisters."
Prime Minister Netanyahu participated in the Purim Megilla reading with soldiers of the Military Police Corps’ Erez Battalion: "We will enter Rafah and achieve complete victory"
To present an example that is happening right before our eyes; Why is the entire world focused, and even obsessed with Israel?
One of the most startling and heartwarming outcomes of this war has been the assembly of the Jewish people in battle and in support of one another.
Esther teaches us that when the nation faces an existential threat, the rules of pikuach nefesh change. Megillat Esther helps us understand how Jewish law views the sacrifice of our soldiers.
Interesting ideas about the Megillah and the Purim holiday.
Why would our Sages instruct us to get drunk, when the Torah and Prophets clearly object to the associated lack of control?
Scroll used was rescued from Germany before the war, preserved over generations.
The stage is set for the thrills by the boring moments that precede them and that is the lesson of Purim.
Close Megillah reading is essential to understanding exile mentality, on the part of government, gentiles and Jews in their host country.
Two decades of North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA) middle school students chant the entire Megillah - a wonderful tradition to emulate..
Brothers and sisters, WAKE UP! The story of the Megillah is being replayed today,
A Biblical Book that doesn’t mention God? Events that ignore Eretz Yisra’el? Preposterous, some said!
To the Iranian Mullahs, like Haman, Jews sitting at‘their gate to the King (the Almighty) in Jerusalem as sovereigns, is intolerable.
Israeli artist sets Guinness World Record for longest megillah scroll.
The Megillah is replete with symbols of disguise and hiding and it is not by chance that the Torah reading talks of the priest's garments..
When Purim falls on a Friday, the celebration entails details explained below - in Jerusalem and specific cities, it lasts for three days!
Esther Horgen's family decided to let her light shine on and created The Israel Bible Scroll of Esther with her illustrations. Op-ed.
Jews converge on the tomb of the prophet Joshua to read the Megilla during the festival of Purim.
During search of house in Tulkarm Border Police find scroll stolen from synagogue in north; return it to son of deceased and to community.
A unique Megillat Esther was written and read from in a Nazi labor camp during the Second World War.
A debate many thought had been resolved long ago has been revived this year for residents of a Jerusalem suburb on when to celebrate Purim.
Some IDF soldiers are in hot water for using their weapons as “noisemakers” during the reading of the Megillah.
Fifty men, women and children join Megilla reading at Homesh, which was abandoned in the 2005 Disengagement.
When he lived in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z”tl used to read the megilla on Purim, as well as on Shushan Purim, said his son.
Yeshiva students plan round-the-clock readings of the Book of Esther for Tel Aviv revelers.
Karaoke-style Powerpoint Megillah presentations to accompany chazan in 200 synagogues.
