The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

Step one – as epitomized by Purim – is the struggle to bring the Jews together, to unite as a loving community, albeit in a ...

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

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

President Trump's approach to battling antisemitism is making things worse, not better, argues a co-author of Biden's ...

(RNS) — On Purim, Jews celebrate a long-ago victory over hatred, but it's worth praying too for the frustration of some modern antisemitic plotters. (RNS) — On the Jewish holiday of Purim ...

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 ...

Purim dates back to around 537 BCE ... In remembrance, one of the many traditions of this Hebrew holiday is for Jews to read the Megillah—the parchment scroll on which Esther’s story is ...

This year more than ever, both Jews and Christians in general, and Israelis and Iranians in specific, are and should be united in the common lessons and miracles as chronicled in Esther.