They stand for events in our own inner lives. This Shabbat is Shabbat Zachor, the Shabbat in which we remember tribe of Amalek, the nemesis of Jewish people. Amalek is described in Bible as ...

One of the frequent memes in the vexing debate about how to restrain Tehran from getting a nuclear bomb is the religious figure of Amalek. My colleague Jeffrey Goldberg, in trying to explain ...

We supplement the weekly Torah reading with the verses from Deuteronomy [25:17-19] where, at the end of his life, Moses commands Israel to “Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey as you ...

It begins with a single word: Zakhor – remember. It is a commandment from Moses to the Israelites: Remember what Amalek did to you when you left Egypt. A paradoxical command: to remember ...

The regular parasha this shabbat is Tetzaveh, but, in honor of Shabbat Zakhor, the shabbat before Purim, we’ll also read verses from Deuteronomy about Amalek (Deut 25:17-19). Those verses are my ...

Matt Duss asks why I didn't mention, in my op-ed on Bibi and the Iranians, that right-wingers, especially the messianists of the settlement movement, often invoke the specter of Amalek -- and ...

As long as there are knitted kippot, the throne [of God] is not whole. That’s Amalek. When will the throne be whole? When there is no knitted kippah. Are these people even Jews?' Rabbi Shalom ...

He then added: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.” There are more than 23,000 verses in the Old Testament. The ones Netanyahu turned to ...

THIS WEEK is Parashat Zachor – the Shabbat before Purim – when we read the commandment for us to remember Amalek (Israel’s arch-enemy) and their descendants and to orally recall the harm ...

Amalek. It's a biblical tale of destruction that has been invoked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and featured in a drill hip hop song that's garnered millions of streams. Most ...