As I sit and study looking at the falling snow, I realize that each figure in Bereshit, which we will finish reading this coming Shabbat, is a bridge; each figure is a link in the destined chain. As ...

An anonymous queen saves the day in the nick of time by asking her people to fast on Passover! How bizarre can you get? Well there’s more; this week we have a Shushan Purim Shabbat with a sprinkle of ...

Purim, or the Feast of Lots, is a Biblical Jewish festival known for extravagant costumes, the exchanging of gift baskets, performances, and a feast. This joyous celebration commemorates how ancient ...

As the raucous spring festival of Purim approaches, editors of Jewish news outlets are gearing up to produce articles rife with satire, inside jokes and quotes from fictitious, suspiciously named ...

Princesses, police officers, goldfish and more were in costume at the Shushan Purim Extravaganza on March 25 at King David Center in Beachwood. With help from Rabbis Moshe Berger, Akiva Feinstein and ...

Over the weekend, 20- and 30-somethings dressed up in costumes in Jerusalem’s central market to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim. A group of friends in the Nachlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem gets ...

JERUSALEM — As always, the celebration of Shushan Purim here on Sunday and Monday was a boozy, bawdy bacchanalia with many intoxicated celebrants dressed in outlandish costumes. Jewish Jerusalemites ...

This weekend, Jews around the world will come together to celebrate the holiday of Purim, recounting the miracles that occurred in ancient Persia leading to a reversal of fate when the Jewish ...

(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 arrived ...