Folks had different favorites about the Schenectady Jewish Community Center’s Purim Carnival on Sunday. The costumes and the hamantashen came up a few times, but most people remarked on the sense of ...

Chabad House Palm Beach hosted a “Purim in Persia” event on March 2 at The Colony Hotel. The event, held in the hotel's ballroom, drew 150 people and included a public reading of the Megillah — the ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Bonnie Cash/Getty Images/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Press Purim was different this ...

Every year around this time, Jews read the ancient Scroll of Esther and remember a Persian courtier named Haman who plotted "to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews" of the empire in a ...

JERUSALEM--During the Jewish holiday of Purim, the streets of Israel are normally full of people decked out in costumes, giving gifts of food to each other and singing and dancing. This year, that ...

The war did not stop ultra-Orthodox parts of Jerusalem from drinking and dancing for the Jewish holiday. By Natan Odenheimer Reporting from Jerusalem Not even sirens warning of incoming ballistic ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — People of all ages wearing sequined suits, bunny ears, pirate costumes and peacock feathers streamed into a mall’s underground parking lot that also functions as a bomb shelter ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim is celebrated today. It's centered around a biblical story set in ancient Persia. That is, modern-day Iran. As NPR's Daniel Estrin reports from Israel, the holiday is ...

A joyful Jewish holiday known for costumes, cookies, and carnivals begins at sundown on March 2 to sundown on March 3— and across California, families and communities will be marking the moment in ...

Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the ...