At its core, Purim is a coming-out story, and it’s time we embrace Esther’s tradition of owning who you are, says a prominent writer and filmmaker. LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Queen Esther had a ...

Temple Beth-El of Great Neck will celebrate the festive Purim holiday, which commemorates the deliverance of the Jews from ...

The chain is launching three pop-up stores in Petah Tikva, Beersheba, and Hadera, featuring the Purim 2025 collection with ...

Thus, the victory of Purim is a relative one at best, not an absolute victory. As long as there are worlds led by Achashverosh and their ilk, there will be the potential for future Hamans.

(JTA) — Like many synagogues, Rabbi Nate DeGroot’s California congregation had a tradition of accompanying the annual recitation of the Purim story with rowdy humor. But when the storytelling ...

So what was it about the Book of Esther that not only made the rabbis include it but mandated its public reading every year both on the night of Purim and the next morning? I THINK the book serves ...

Purim is a Jewish festival that usually happens in February or March each year. It celebrates a story from the Jewish Bible. In the story, Queen Esther helped to save the Jewish people from an ...

Yet, according to the fourth-century sage Rava, it is a religious commandment for a person not only to drink but “to become intoxicated with wine on Purim until he does not know how to distinguish ...

Three familiar songs "Chag Purim (Purim Holiday)," "Shoshanas Yaakov (The Rose of Jacob)," and Abraham Goldfaden's "Heint Iz ...

Tamarac families are invited to celebrate Purim with a day of fun and festivities as Temple Beth Torah Sha’aray Tzedek hosts its 2nd Annual Purim Carnival.