The President of the Marais Road Shul in Sea Point has apologised for a view he expressed in his monthly email to congregants ...

THIS WEEK is Parashat Zachor – the Shabbat before Purim – when we read the commandment for us to remember Amalek (Israel’s arch-enemy) and their descendants and to orally recall the harm ...

Today, besides Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ayatollah Khamenei, we are hated by U.N. officials and innumerable college faculty, students, commentators, journalists, and government officials around the world.

The Haftorah of Parshat Zachor states: "So says Lord of Hosts: I remembered what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him on the way, as he went up from Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and ...

While Amalek does not tend to focus on the first of these principles, their entire existence is devoted toward destroying the second and third of these principles. Amalek claims that although ...

The commandments regarding Amalek are, undoubtedly, among the most challenging in the Torah. This statement is true on many levels, first and foremost in the difficulty it reflects in ...

Before I could fully process it, another student followed up with: “Why do we condemn Hamas for murdering innocent men, women, and children if we are commanded to wipe out Amalek?” Another ...

Just as Joshua led the fight against Amalek, so too do our brave soldiers fight today, says the writer. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Today is Purim, the festival on which we celebrate ...

In the face of such evil – to attack the weak and those free of sin without reason and with baseless cruelty, which reminds us of the unlimited Nazi-Hamas hatred – there is only one possible ...

A member of the Sephardi haredi Orthodox Shas party’s rabbinical council called the Modern Orthodox community Amalek, referring to the archenemy of the Jewish people. JERUSALEM (JTA ...