Purim

Israeli settlers take part in the annual Purim parade in Hebron, March 7, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Reclaiming Purim from the supremacists
This Purim, we must celebrate not by clinging to a 'self defense' of war and apartheid, but by envisioning a world based on support and interdependence.
By Lexie Botzum March 7, 2023
Screenshot of video of settlers intimidating Palestinian man at a Hebron checkpoint.
Watch: Israeli settlers harass Palestinian man in Hebron as troops look on
The B’Tselem video shows a group of Israeli settlers and their dog, who decide to celebrate a festive Jewish holiday by intimidating and abusing a Palestinian man at a checkpoint. Instead of intervening, the Israeli troops on scene made the victim leave, telling him it is a place for Jews only. There is no blood…
By Yali (Yael) Marom July 11, 2017
Friends evacuate 13-year-old Muhammad al-Kurdi, who was injured by live ammunition fired by Israeli forces during clashes in Aida Refugee Camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, February 25, 2013. The clashes were in response to the death of Arafat Jaradat, who died after being interrogated in Israeli custody. (Photo by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
From Hebron’s streets to Ofer’s walls: A week in photos – February 21-27
This week: Palestinians protest for access to a segregated street in Hebron while Israeli settlers freely march on it during Purim; reactions to the death of prisoner Arafat Jaradat; a teen is shot by Israeli forces; and right-wingers mock hunger strikers at Ofer military prison.                    …
By Activestills February 28, 2013
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Tallit and Kippa from a Glasgow synagogue, 2007 (Photo: Jimmy MacDonald/flickr)
Orthodox Jewish, British, Pro-Israel, Pro-peace
Last week I met and spoke to a small group of Orthodox Jews in London, about Israeli political and social developments. I expected a challenging crowd, although the meeting’s organizer Hannah Weisfeld – who is working tirelessly to start an organization inspired by J Street in the UK – assured me that the audience was broadly…
By Dahlia Scheindlin March 22, 2011
Purim shopping in Tel-Aviv: Oscar’s easy, Alice isn’t
We have three days left before the busiest partying weekend of the entire year. The Talmud itself urges us to drink so much during the holiday of Purim that we won’t quite remember the point of Purim itself. Since the biblical story of Queen Esther ends with the gruesome massacre of 50,000 innocent Persians, I’m…
By Yuval Ben-Ami March 15, 2011
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