On the Jewish calendar, today is Taanit Esther (the Fast of Esther), a religious observance immediately preceding the Jewish ...

Prayers in the Land of Israel have a special value in that they bring about Unification in the Upper Worlds. So writes the Holy Shelah: “In the early days of Israel, G-d strongly desired the ...

A man in tears struggled Wednesday to retrieve the body of a small boy from under the rubble of a building in Gaza City hit ...

JERUSALEM — In the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, about 90,000 Palestinians prayed at the Al Aqsa ...

The often-repeated verse were Mordechai counsels Esther that she was put in her place as Queen “for such a time as this” ...

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Israel has imposed strict restrictions on Palestinians from the occupied West Bank trying to reach Jerusalem for prayers at ...

Under new restrictions, only men over age of 55, women over 50, children under 12 will be permitted to enter Al-Aqsa Mosque - ...

Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across ... 55 and women over 50 to enter from the occupied territory for the prayers. Tensions have risen in the West Bank in the past weeks amid Israeli ...