The folk singer Tom Lehrer penned a famous ditty in which he alluded to spending Jewish holidays in places where the name of ...

Purim begins on the evening of March 13, 2025, and concludes at sundown on March 14, 2025.

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

French Jews will celebrate the festivities of Purim. Fasting, prayers, readings, meals, and costumes—these two days allow practitioners to commemorate a special time in the Jewish calendar.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish kids wear costumes ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children and men, some wearing ...

Purim traditions include reading the Megillah, exchanging food gifts, giving to the needy, and dressing in costumes.

Jewish communities worldwide celebrated Purim, a joyous holiday that includes dressing up in costume, giving charity, and ...

(RNS) — The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza. (RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and ...

Wherever we travel, wherever we find ourselves in this vast world, all we have to do is pay attention, look around, maybe put ...

Purim has come and gone, but I can’t stop thinking about it. Perhaps this is because Purim’s Megillat Esther is the only one of the five megillot that is read not once but twice. Eicha ...

A “sofer” (Hebrew for “scribe”) writes the scroll of Esther for the Jewish holiday of Purim in the northern Israeli city of Safed on March 5, 2025. This is not the first time in history in ...