Purim is usually considered kind of a kid's holiday. Haman's plot is foiled, big cheers, big finish. For most Purim plays, and for many Jews, that's the end of the story.

Purim commemorates the dramatic events recorded in the Book of Esther, set in ancient Persia around the 5th century BCE. At its heart is a gripping narrative featuring Queen Esther, ...

Purim has always had a special place in my heart as it is perfectly Persian Jewish. As a young person of Iranian Jewish background living in the U.S. and attending Jewish grade school among ...

Purim is a Jewish holiday that, this year, begins at sunset on March 6 and ends at sunset on March 7 — the Jewish calendar is based on a lunar calendar, ...

Get all the details on Purim, including when Purim will fall on a Friday, and get ready to have a great time. Related: 50 Passover Trivia Questions To Quiz Your Friends and Family This Pesach.

For Purim, make the soup with Old World legumes that would have been available to the Jews of ancient Persia: lentils and garbanzo beans. Cook them with sauteed onions and garlic, ...

Purim Carnival: Hosted by Temple Sinai and Temple Emanu-El at 1031 Manzanita Ln. from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, March 9. There will be games and prizes. Costumes are encouraged.

Purim always carries a different rhythm for Jerusalem’s residents. The battle to defend ourselves from our enemies raged across the Persian kingdom on the 13th of Adar. The victorious ...

Sunday is the Jewish holiday of Purim, a commemoration of the defeat of Haman, a king’s aide under the Achaemenid Empire who planned to massacre all of the Jews — and Jews in Teaneck, NJ, are ...

Purim means hamantaschen, but which kind is the best? We asked Jerusalemites and Jerusalem Post journalists which ones they liked the most, and why people enjoy poppy seeds.

Purim is essentially about the celebration of violence. So while I enjoyed Rabbi Landes’s reading of the Purim story, let us not forget it is essentially a holiday of revenge. We drink to ...