L ast week marked the Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrating the bravery of Queen Esther. Yet Esther’s legacy has been co-opted ...

Large crowds gathered at the central Marina Roshcha shul in Moscow to hear the Megillah being read on Purim, while ...

Residents and staff joined together at Magnolia Court to celebrate the vibrant Jewish festival of Purim, in partnership with ...

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes, read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish ...

Purim is known as the biggest party on the Jewish calendar.Some call it the "Jewish Mardi Gras."Sunday the celebrations continued here in the Capital Region.Tem ...

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

Three Palestinians have been shot and injured by Israeli army forces during clashes in Nablus and Hebron (Al-Khalil) in the ...

Are you a strong enough man to write a stronger woman?” Behold! What a “mic drop” moment for William Shakespeare (Cleveland’s ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are encouraged — in synagogue no less — as Jews gather for a public reading of the ...

“What’s trending now: latke or hamantash?” That will be the theme of this year’s Latke-Hamantash Debate, when the cherished ...

The Purim story begins about 900 years after the Exodus from Egypt, in what is now Iran, history repeats itself. The Jews had been living in Israel continually, since they first entered with Joshua.

CHICAGO – Community members in Andersonville gathered Sunday for the neighborhood’s first ever Purim Carnival. The holiday ...