Purim

Purim Party

This Purim, Jews in NYC are ready to party like it’s 2019

As Covid restrictions lift, a host of raucous Purim parties represent a new beginning.

By Jacob Henry March 10, 2022 3:35 pm

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Hamantaschen.

To help Ukraine, these Jewish bakers are making hamantaschen

From Berlin to Chicago and beyond, these bakers are cranking out sweets for a good cause.

March 7, 2022 6:10 pm

Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

In the years that followed the Holocaust, survivors used to cast regularly the German mass murderer as Haman or his sidekick.

February 25, 2021 5:51 pm

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I can’t fast for Jewish holidays without being reminded of our toxic diet culture

By Jillian Axelrod February 25, 2021 2:57 pm

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Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

By Aylin Sedighi-Gabbaizadeh February 25, 2021 2:48 pm

Azerbaijan’s Jews postpone public Purim events in deference to national memorial day

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 9:48 am

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The data don’t lie: Yeshiva high school students have a binge-drinking problem. Here’s what we can do about it.

By Rivka Press Schwartz and Rabbi Tully Harcsztark February 23, 2021 1:48 pm

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To make my second pandemic Purim more meaningful, I’m focusing on giving to the poor

By Sharon Weiss-Greenberg February 18, 2021 2:58 pm

These 7 US bakeries will ship hamantaschen directly to you

By Shannon Sarna February 17, 2021 10:50 am

from The Nosher

Jews celebrate a pandemic Purim, some for the first time and some for the second

By Shira Hanau February 1, 2021 12:57 pm

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