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.

Furthermore, according to halakhic authorities, the obligation to wage war against Amalek was not given solely to King Shaul or King David after him - it is an eternal mitzvah for all generations ...

The Gemara in Yoma (22b) recounts how King Shaul questioned its morality when commanded to annihilate Amalek. He said: ומה נפש אחת אמרה תורה הבא עגלה ערופה ...

This is the Bible’s “baby Hitler” scenario: Amalek is irredeemably evil. This commandment evolved. Already in talmudic times, the sages ruled that since the Assyrian king Sennacherib had ...

In the Scroll of Esther, revenge is a powerful theme, but just as clearly one that leads to confusion and tragedy.

The Israelites were able to defend themselves. Haman, the villain of the Purim story, was a descendant of King Agag of the Amalek tribe. When the Israelites prepared to enter the Promised Land ...

whom King Saul fought against and who was killed by the Prophet Samuel (Shemuel I 15:33). Whether or not that is factually true doesn’t matter. The great Sages point out that Amalek is not only ...

Haman, like Amalek, cares little for human life ... is worthless as long as I see Mordechai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate” (Esther 5:13). Subsequently, Haman hatches his genocidal ...

For 410 years, King Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem had ... and persistent enemies of the Jewish people was the nation of Amalek, the first enemy to attack the Jews after the Exodus from Egypt.