(RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking ...

(RNS) — On the Jewish holiday of Purim, which falls on March 14 this year, gifts of food are exchanged, charity is generously ...

I hope and pray for good news and better days, in which we can truly celebrate the Jewish holidays and calendar, together as ...

One might say that the menorah and the ketoret were temidin, while the lechem hapanim was only switched once a week, on Shabbat. However, although it was only switched once a week, the lechem hapanim ...

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 ...

In the Diaspora, Jews stress their connection to Israel and the unity of the Jewish people. The story of Purim is told in the biblical text of Megillat Esther. As the Megillah teaches, the Jews of ...