Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purim is a joyful Jewish holiday that celebrates the survival of the Jewish people in ancient Persia, as told in the biblical Book ...

Get your party on; Purim is almost here! The holiday is one of the most joyous and fun on the Jewish calendar, complete with everything from feasts to costumes to wine, all in honor of Queen Esther ...

The events in Shushan were never merely about the Jews of Persia. Just a few years before Esther’s miraculous rise, we had begun our return to Jerusalem, laying the foundations of the Second Temple.

Not all Jewish holidays are about unbridled celebration. (For instance, Yom Kippur is instead a time instead for fasting along with solemn prayer, reflection and atonement.) But the springtime holiday ...

From Purim baskets to hamentaschen, here's where these customs came from From Purim baskets to hamentaschen, here's where these customs came from This week, Jewish people around the world are ...

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AP — The Purim holiday is usually marked in Israel with boisterous street parades and costume parties to celebrate the Jewish victory over an ancient Persian ruler. This year, the celebrations moved ...

For many Jews, Purim may be the holiday when five-year-olds dress up like Queen Esther and 25-year-olds drink “until they can’t tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman,” but in recent years, ...

I’ve always struggled with the food waste and the overly-elaborate, themed, status baskets. I never understood why this mitzvah is up there with the other three mitzvot of Purim: listening to the ...

Purim is the Jewish holiday on which we are commanded to drink. And I’m not just talking about a Kiddush cup full of Manischewitz. No, on Purim we are supposed to get shickered, that it is to say, ...

As ceasefire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia continue, a group of Jewish soldiers took a moment from the frontlines to celebrate Purim with the Jewish community. Ukranian Jewish soldiers on ...

Jewish communities are celebrating Purim this week. The festival allows even the most buttoned-down orthodox sects to let loose for a day of costumes and carousing, fuelled by religiously mandated ...