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Friday, March 22, 2024


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At Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, a man dons a costume ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim in the backdrop of photos of the hostages being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, March 22, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim

With the Jewish people threatened by enemies bent on their destruction, as well as faithless friends, the lessons of a happy holiday are needed right now.

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Sima Ghaffarzadeh/Pixabay.

House passes ‘minibus’ package with money for Israel, nonprofit security

“It is the most pro-Israel State and Foreign Operations bill that we have ever seen,” said Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.).

Andrew Bernard

China and Russia vetoed a U.S. drafted resolution about Gaza at the U.N. Security Council on March 22, 2024. Credit: U.N. Photo.

China, Russia veto US ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council

Mike Wagenheim

Aerial view of buildings in the University of California, Berkeley campus. Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock.

Professor ends ‘sleep-in’ after Berkeley agrees to requests

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu meets in Tel Aviv with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Jan. 9, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Israel prefers US support, but will enter Rafah alone if need be, Netanyahu tells Blinken

The Israeli prime minister and the U.S. secretary of state met in Tel Aviv to discuss the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.

Supporters of Palestinian Islamic Jihad participate in a rally in Gaza City marking the 36th anniversary of the movement's foundation, Oct. 6, 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

Yaakov Lappin

Should Israel set up a temporary IDF administration in Gaza?

Kremlin, Moscow, Russia. Credit: RPerucho/Pixabay.

Islamic State claims credit for Moscow terror attack that killed more than 130

Aid packages for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are dropped from international airplanes in northern Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, March 21, 2024. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Hezbollah launches drone, projectile attacks from Southern Lebanon

Yaakov Lappin

IDF troops search for a Palestinian terrorist in the Binyamin region of Samaria, March 22, 2024. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

Seven Israelis wounded in shootout with terrorist in Samaria

Candace Owens speaks on the first day of the CPAC Washington, D.C. conference at Gaylord National Harbor Resort on March 2, 2023. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

‘Daily Wire’: Relationship with Candace Owens ‘ended’

Passengers aboard an airplane. Credit: StelaDi/Pixabay.

Man who used anti-Jewish slur removed from American Airlines flight

An LAPD helicopter over Los Angeles. Photo by Biker x days/Shutterstock.

LA county’s district attorney launches interfaith advisory board

David Swindle

David Gilbert (center), president and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Sports Commission, discusses the Women's NCAA Final Four with Jon Steinbrecher, commissioner of the Mid-American Conference, and ESPN sportscaster Carolyn Peck during a press conference at Rocket Morgage FieldHouse arena in Cleveland on Feb. 27, 2024. Credit: Alexandra Golden/Cleveland Jewish News.

‘Eyes of the world’ on Cleveland as NCAA Women’s Final Four nears

Annually, Kehot prints more than 150,000 books across some 100 titles, maintaining an active catalog of approximately 2,750 titles. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Largest Jewish publisher gets its own ZIP code

Jennifer Mamlet. Credit: Courtesy.

JCC of North America names first woman as new acting president, CEO

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin meets with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Dec. 18, 2023. Credit: Chad McNeeley/U.S. Department of Defense.

Discordant messages to Israel from Biden admin on Rafah operation

Chicago police officer. Credit: MisterStock/Shutterstock.

ADL report names anti-Israel agitators in Chicago

A Jewish settler rides his horse near the outpost of Ramat Migron on Sept. 8, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

US sanctions Israeli ‘settlers,’ but won’t reveal its sources

Josh Hasten

Foreign Minister Israel Katz arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Jan. 22, 2023. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Israeli FM summons Turkish envoy after Erdoğan vows to ‘send Netanyahu to Allah’

Mossad Director David Barnea speaks at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism's World Summit on Counter-Terrorism at Herzliya's Reichman University, Sept. 10, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS.

Mossad chief leads Israeli delegation to Doha for hostage talks

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

‘Canada completely lost its moral compass,’ MK says of arms cutoff to J’lem

Amelie Botbol

Israeli soldiers walk by a protest in Jerusalem attended by hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews against a proposal to introduce compulsory military service to the haredi community, March 02, 2014. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Haredi parties welcome financial penalties on draft dodgers in draft bill

Amir Ettinger and Yehuda Shlezinger

U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO head Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library/National Archives & Records Administration.

Who wants a two-state solution? Not Israelis or Palestinians

Israel Kasnett

Jews read the Esther Scroll on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim at a synagogue in Katzrin, northern Israel, March 6, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Israel Police urges armed guard in every synagogue on Purim

Fire truck putting out flames. Credit: Pixabay.

Investigators consider antisemitism related to East London house fire

"Megillah in Wine Bottle." Silkscreen print by Mark Podwal. Credit: Courtesy of Mark Podwal.

Mark Podwal

‘Megillah in Wine Bottle’

Adar Pisces. Drawing by Mark Podwal. Credit: Mark Podwal.

Mark Podwal

‘Adar Pisces’

Costume masks. Credit: Jeaneves/Pixabay.

‘We need the joy’: Jews worldwide gear up for Purim despite the pain

Sarah Ogince

Artemisia Gentileschi's 1620s painting "Esther before Ahasuerus" in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Source: Public domain.

Throughout her career, Charlotte Brontë drew on ‘Book of Esther’

Milton Berle with an unnamed woman at Grossinger's Country Club in the Catskills in 1954. Credit: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

It’s not too soon for humor in a post-Oct. 7 world, scholars say

Mike Wagenheim

purim news and opinion

Jewish children from Pinsk-Karlin Chassidic group dressed up in costumes at their school in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood a few days before Purim, March 5, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

What makes this Purim different from others?

Judith Segaloff

King Ahasuerus and Haman at the “Feast of Esther.” Credit: Rembrandt Painting, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, via Wikimedia Commons.

Queen Esther, a woman of valor

William Daroff

Haredi Jews celebrate Purim at a yeshivah in the Mea She'arim neighborhood of Jerusalem, March 8, 2023. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

‘Don’t worry, be happy!’

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Jews read the Esther Scroll on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim at a synagogue in Katzrin, northern Israel, March 6, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Israel Police urges armed guard in every synagogue on Purim

Kids dress up for Purim at a school in Katzrin in the Golan Heights, March 5, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

Israeli ministry warns of ‘panic-inducing’ Purim costumes

People party during Purim on Agrippas Street, near Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda market. Courtesy of the Jerusalem Municipality.

Jerusalem to hold first Purim parade since 1982

A PLO flag atop the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamedan, Iran. Screenshot: Social media.

PLO flag flies at Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Iran

Shirit Avital Cohen

Israeli soldiers celebrate Purim at an army base in southern Israel, Feb. 28, 2018. Photo by Liba Farkash/Flash90.

Israeli soldiers in Gaza to celebrate Purim on March 24, chief rabbi rules

Israeli girls dressed up to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem. The festival of Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of Persia from Haman's plot to annihilate them. Photo by Orel Cohen/Flash90.

Drawing strength from Purim’s message

Jan Lee

“Esther Before Ahasuerus,” oil on canvas, by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1547. Credit: Royal Collection, United Kingdom, via Wikimedia Commons.

Purim, the Oscars and dying to fit in

Pinny Arnon

Librarian Kobi Abarbanel with students from Jerusalem's Hartman High School, including Chai Lascar (second from right), in Tel Aviv's "Hostage Square," March 21, 2024. Photo by Amelie Botbol.

J’lem students mark Fast of Esther at Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage Square’

Amelie Botbol

Jews at the Western Wall in Jerusalem during the Priestly Blessing for Passover, April 18, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Western Wall mass prayer service to be held for hostages

opinion

A scene from the 1922 film “Nosferatu,” directed by German film producer and screenwriter Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Credit: Prana Film via Wikimedia Commons.

the column

Caroline B. Glick

The triumph of the blood libel

We’re seeing lots and lots of it these days. It’s worth recalling what a blood libel really is.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Israeli President's Residence in Jerusalem, Feb. 7, 2024. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.

Ruthie Blum

Blinken’s Rafah blunder

Credit: ArmyAmber/Pixabay.

Ben Cohen

War is hell. Everywhere.

Jerold S. Auerbach

A Jew against Jews

Mannequins show off Purim options at Brurya, a costume store in Tel Aviv. Photo by Deborah Fineblum.

Overcoming adversity: Purim and the resilience of Jewish identity

Jewish National Fund-USA has created hundreds of water reservoirs in Israel. Credit: Courtesy of JNF-USA.

Critical water source secured for southern Israel’s revival

Rabbi David Goldstein at the inaugural four-day “Conference of Learners,” sponsored by the Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning, in Chicago, May 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Rising antisemitism, Israel-Hamas war result in 226% rise in registrants to adult learning

New OU campaign challenges stereotypes of who is a Jew. Credit: Screenshot

Orthodox Union campaign combats antisemitism, promotes Jewish pride

South African mission embarks on historic visit to Israel

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