Our enemies spread lies about Israel, portraying the victim as the aggressor. We must counter these lies with truth, ...

Every year we are obligated to read not how God will destroy Amalek but how we should destroy Amalek. How do we reconcile this mitzvah with our deeply ingrained values of compassion and mercy?

Amalek is not about ancestry – it is a force that recurs throughout history. And so while the Torah’s command to destroy Amalek no longer applies to an entire nation, the injunction of Zakhor ...

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 ...

Now go and strike Amalek and destroy everything he has, have no mercy on him. Kill man and woman alike, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey" (I Samuel 15:2-3). These instructions ...

The Torah's juxtaposition of Amalek (seeking destruction) and Yitro (offering wisdom) teaches us that protection and ...

There was another purpose to the fighting and that was to “destroy the seed of Amalek. (Rambam, Hilchot Melachim 5:5)” There are those who maintain that Haman the “Aggagi” was a descendant ...

South Africa showed a “deep historical ignorance” in misattributing how the Israeli prime minister referred to Amalek, his office said. (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

The answer is that even when Hashem hides His face, He is still there. A person wearing a mask is still the same person underneath. The story of Purim is all about hiding and revealing. It is about ...

On Purim and we will read the story of how Haman, a descendant of Amalek, persuaded Achashveros, King of Persia, to destroy ...

Speaking of evil, there is an extra very important reading this week called parashat Zachor, where we read about the ...