The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

It was nearly a year and a half ago following the October 7 massacre, that Italy stepped up to the challenge and offered ...

While the path to eradicate Judaism back then was physical, and today’s is ideological – negating Judaism by negating the ...

Unlike in the story of the Megillah and during the Holocaust, Jews are presently defending their homeland, the country that ...

On Purim, Jews celebrate a long-ago victory over hatred, but it's worth praying too for the frustration of some modern ...

French Jews will celebrate the festivities of Purim. Fasting, prayers, readings, meals, and costumes—these two days allow ...

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

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.

The often-repeated verse were Mordechai counsels Esther that she was put in her place as Queen “for such a time as this” ...

For Morocco’s Jews, the festival of Purim, beginning March 13, has contemporary resonance, illustrating the tenuous existence ...

If there is a message for this Purim, for this moment in history, it is this the story of the Jewish people is not just a ...