Cities move ahead with events amid fragile Lebanon, Iran ceasefires, though some opt for scaled-down, community-based ...
The NCFJE is once again hosting the annual Lag B’omer rally at the park for Crown Heights schools, followed by a full-day ...
One genre. Three photographers. Three standout images, each revealing how vision, timing and technique come together in a ...
Few musicians carry the kind of quiet authority that Airto Moreira does. From the electric shifts of Miles Davis’ early-70s groups to decades of boundary-pushing work alongside  Flora Purim, his ...
The Jewish holiday cycle is, to a large extent, an exploration and commemoration of the experience of exile. The fall festival of Sukkot, for example, is celebrated in small booths, temporary shelters ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A joyful Jewish holiday known for costumes, cookies, and carnivals begins at sundown on March 2 to sundown on March 3— and across ...
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 ...
From childhood groggers to Israel today, Purim reminds us of courage, joy, and the enduring fight against life’s Hamans. An old friend of mine, Rabbi Richard Hammerman, and his wife, Sharon, are in ...
Israelis dressed in costumes gather in a parking lot used as a shelter to celebrate the carnival-like Purim holiday in Tel-Aviv on March 2, 2026. Agence France-Presse TEL AVIV — As the sun set in the ...