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Now, more than ever, we are seeing disagreements within the Jewish community about the current conflict, which thankfully reached a cease-fire recently. More and more voices, especially Jewish ones, spoke out forcefully against Israel and its self-defense tactics that included painful decisions to bomb places where Hamas stores its weapons and rocket launchers: many of which are in civilian areas, including homes, offices, and even in the building that housed journalists like the AP.
Not Just Purim: Five Extraordinary Stories of Miraculous Redemption
Jewish communities around the world that were saved from the brink of destruction.
The Jews of the Purim story celebrated their delivery from destruction by having a festive meal, giving food gifts to each other and reading a specially written scroll, Megillat Esther, to publicize the miracle. Over the years other Jewish communities who have experienced being saved from the brink of destruction have also established their own mini “Purim.”
Jewish law teaches “Whoever has had a miracle occur for them, all the more so the inhabitants of a city, can establish that day for themselves and those who come after them as a ’Purim’”. Indeed, Rabbi Avraham Danzig, the famed Lithuanian Rabbi of the 19th century included a footnote in his halachic work,
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