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Israeli President Isaac Herzog participates in the traditional reading of the Book of Esther at the Shemesh U’Magen synagogue in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, March 13, 2025. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Herzog attends Megillah reading alongside family of murdered hostage
Ori Danino saved many lives at the Supernova music festival before being murdered in Gazan bondage.
JNS Staff
March 14, 2025
Packages ahead of Purim, containing food items and books of Esther, given to Knesset members by families of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip, March 10, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Purim for every IDF soldier
Special emphasis is dedicated to ensuring that every base has a “Scroll of Esther” written on parchment.
Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
March 13, 2025
Rabbi Chanania Steinmetz (right), a U.S. Air Force chaplain, shakes hands with Rabbi Aaron Lipskar, CEO of the Aleph Institute, at the 18th Annual Aleph Military Symposium in Surfside, Fla., March 6, 2025. Credit: Yisroel Teitelbaum/Aleph Institute.
‘Blessing’ to be able to decline so many Purim invites in NY, says chaplain bound for Texas base
“It’s important for me to help other Jews have the chance to experience the holiday on this level,” the Chabad rabbi told JNS.
Vita Fellig
March 13, 2025
Venetian mask. Credit: Nicolette/Pixabay.
Behind the mask
On Purim and every day, take time to recognize the countless little miracles (and many not-so-little miracles).
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
March 12, 2025
Omer Shem Tov, 23, an Israeli hostage released by Hamas after 505 days help captive in Gaza, returns to his home in Herzliya, March 1, 2025. Photo by Tal Gal/Flash90.
The gallows, the tunnels and the tree: Hidden miracles from Persia to Gaza
Purim reminds us that salvation can come in the blink of an eye and that even in our darkest moments, we are never alone.
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann
March 12, 2025
A “sofer” (Hebrew for “scribe”) writes the scroll of Esther for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the northern Israeli city of Safed on March 5, 2025. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
On Purim, celebrate Jewish self-defense, not self-loathing
Leftists misuse the biblical book of Esther to promote the lie about Israel committing genocide when it is the Palestinians, like Hitler, Haman and Amalek before them, who seek their extermination.
Jonathan S. Tobin
March 12, 2025
The coronation of Esther from the Moshe Ben Avraham Pescarol Esther Scroll, Ferrara, Italy, 1616. Credit: National Library of Israel.
Rare 17th-century Esther Scroll returns to Ferrara for Purim show
The National Library of Israel is lending the 400-year-old artifact to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah for a new temporary exhibition.
Joshua Marks
March 11, 2025
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) speaks on May 10, 2023 at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York. Credit: Paul Froggatt/Shutterstock.
Jamaal Bowman, Jews are not victims
The congressman who denied Hamas’s mass rapes dares to wish us a happy Purim.
Nachama Soloveichik
March 27, 2024
Jews, some of them new immigrants, read the Megillat Esther (the Scroll of Esther) during the Jewish holiday of Purim in Katzrin in northern Israel on March 7, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
Purim celebrated in Israel with all the usual fanfare
The holiday started after sundown on Monday and continues through Tuesday evening, with Shushan Purim lasting through Wednesday.
March 7, 2023