Tag: Purim

By JOHN OSTFIELD Purim should be canceled this year! Why is that true? The Book of Esther, with its combination ...

By DORIS RUBENSTEIN Jewish festivals have various durations: Purim lasts but one day, while Hanuka encompasses eight crazy nights (as ...

Reviewed by LISA WALKER Growing up as a young Jewish girl in the 1970s, I looked forward to the Purim ...

By ADRIAN GLASS-MOORE / Assistant Editor The COVID-19 pandemic has hit senior care facilities especially hard, and Sholom is no ...

By MORDECAI SPECKTOR In an opinion article published this past January by The Times of Israel, Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz noted ...

By LEANNE SHOR (JTA) — Bringing new life to hamantaschen was a challenge. People are dead set on their favorite flavors ...

By WILHELMINA GOTTSCHALK (JTA) — “To repeat, after you have been knighted by Her Majesty the Queen, you will proceed ...

Queen Esther’s religious background is part of a story of Jewish survival that encompasses every permutation of identity, secret or ...

For Persian Jews, Purim is a celebration of their dual identity By EDMON J. RODMAN LOS ANGELES (JTA) — With ...

Minneapolis-based publisher Kar-Ben has released "The Queen Who Saved Her People" by Tilda Balsley, a new adaptation of the well-known ...