The Prime Minister’s Office on Tuesday hit out at South Africa’s allegation that comments by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referencing the Amalekites, the biblical enemy of the ancient Israelites, ...

I have never preached about the Amalekites, ancient Israel’s hereditary enemy, passed down from generation to generation. I can imagine the wide eyes and ashen faces staring back at me. My pastoral ...

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 Israeli ...

In Jewish tradition, no enemy looms larger — or carries more theological weight — than Amalek. Described in the Bible as the first nation to attack the Israelites after the Exodus, the Amalekites came ...

The Prime Minister’s Office hits out at South Africa’s allegation that comments by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referencing the Amalekites, the biblical enemy of the ancient Israelites, were ...

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The Bible has thousands of passages that may serve as the basis for instruction and inspiration. Not all of them are appropriate in all circumstances. The story of Saul and the Amalekites is a case in ...

“If I perish, I perish” is the famous phrase, which the Biblical heroine, Queen Esther said when she was going to risk her life by talking to the King of Persia to save the Jews from a genocide. In ...

Reading “The New Israeli Rules of Engagement” (Amit Segal, op-ed March 5) reminds me of the biblical passage that was read last week: “Zachor,” meaning remember. In the reading, God commands King Saul ...