In contrast to the victim of get-refusal, the war widows desperately wanted to stay with their husbands. They became agunot due to evil forces from without.

The Israel Defense Forces’ Military Rabbinate distributed almost half a million hamantaschen, or oznei Haman (“Haman’s ears”) cookies, the army said ahead of the holiday of Purim, which starts ...

The IDF is preparing for the Purim holiday and has provided its soldiers with thousands of mishloach manot packages, Scrolls of Esther and various books on the halachot (Jewish laws) of Purim.