Tisa, which this year was also Purim Meshulash, the grand Melave Malka benefitting Keren Chaya Mushka was held for the twenty ...
Helen Ready’s 1971 women’s liberation anthem, “I Am Woman Hear Me Roar,” comes to mind when I think of Purim. Remember Esther ...
In the midst of all the noise, may we also tune our hearts to the quieter frequencies: the acts of hidden kindness, the ...
Chabad of Manhasset transported guests back in time with a “Purim in Persia” celebration at the Starry Ballroom.
Photos and story by Robert Kalfus This year’s Purim festivities at Chabad of Yonkers saw people dressed in all individual ...
Step one – as epitomized by Purim – is the struggle to bring the Jews together, to unite as a loving community, albeit in a ...
By Jack Motz In anticipation of Purim last week, students at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons reconstructed Shushan, an ...
During the day of Shushan Purim, I normally walk through the city of Jerusalem and stop at one of the Chabad Purim tents ...
In addition to the core activities of reading the Megillah, sending gifts (mishloach manot), and donating three half shekels ...
Our days in Shushan have ended for this year, yet there is a way of staying here a bit longer because Purim is in the month of Adar. Our rabbis stated: “ Mi-shenikhnas Adar marbim b’simcha; when Adar ...
Purim is hardly over, and the true faces of the haters and loathers have already been revealed. Not so long ago, it was ...
Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on Exodus and its connection to slavery and liberation.