Despite the mitzvah’s relatively modest baseline, many people exchange dozens of food gifts with family, friends and ...

This weekend we will be celebrating Purim Meshulash (three days of Purim) in Jerusalem and other walled cities from the days ...

This year, we celebrate Purim in the shadow of war, with 59 of our brothers and sisters still held hostage in Gaza, and the ...

exchanged mishloach manot (Purim gifts). Sofer entered Eisenkot's office with a gift basket and proclaimed: "I brought you mishloach manot because you are the closest, both physically and in the ...

Prime minister bangs on table, bristles at being told to speed up testimony, says should receive time to counter the charges ...

In a sporadic occurrence that will next repeat itself in 2045, Jews in the capital get to celebrate a three-day holiday ...

By giving to the poor, we make our lives meaningful and can truly rejoice. That's why we are commanded to give gifts to the poor on Purim. This year, there are 86 families with orphaned children ...

The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.

Israel has been accused of carrying out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians during the Gaza conflict in a United Nations report. It alleges a broad range of violations perpetrated against ...

The United States has put forward a new proposal that would secure the release of a handful of living hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a month-long extension of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire ...

Air Canada has apologized after it emerged that some of its fleet displayed maps that appeared to have erased Israel. The carrier’s Boeing 737 MAX fleet were found to have moving maps — part ...