This year, the festival is extended to three days in walled cities – adding the day before and the day after – giving rise to ...

Dear Rabbi. Our Rabbis tell us we must drink on Purim until we no longer know the difference between Haman and Mordechai. This to me sounds like an awful lot of booze. How can we justify this ...

Even holy books are fair game, as Jews parody religious wisdom with “Purim Torah.” But let me kick it up a notch, and in the carnival spirit, offer some blasphemy. The Megillah is more than ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

(RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking ...

though some people and certain locations celebrate Purim on the 15th of Adar. The biggest food and drink staple for Purim is actually wine! At a traditional meal, called Se`udat Purim, wine is ...

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