Purim

Food has a special place in Jewish celebrations, and on the holiday of Purim, Jews celebrate by baking and eating a triangular cookie called "Hamantas.

(RNS) — As Jews around the world gather today to celebrate the holiday of Purim, marking the deliverance of ancient Persia's Jews from a genocidal plot, ...

Solidarity is taking form in grassroots concerts, rabbinic sermons, and by baking and selling hamantaschen — the traditional tri-cornered cookie for Purim — to support those in need and infuse even greater urgency into the ancient story. Even while leading volunteers delivering food packages and hosting online support groups for those sheltering in place, she’s made time to teach local children and their parents about the upcoming holiday. Out of this torrent of death and unrest, they have built strong, thriving Jewish communities that would look familiar to any of us in New York, Miami or Los Angeles. I heard stories about a wheelchair user who made the harrowing trek alone and a set of frail and weak grandparents in need of urgent medical attention. Her husband had to remain in Ukraine and she would now need to figure out her next steps without him. It is in these cities, and so many others across Moldova, Romania and Hungary, where refugees are receiving food, medical care, accommodation and warm connections with the Jewish communities taking them in.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dressed up in costumes and took to the streets of the Middle Eastern country for festive parades. The holiday, celebrated from sundown on 16 ...

Unlike the past five years, Israel this year will not impose a closure of checkpoints in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, a measure that seeks to maintain the passage of Palestinians working in Israel and avoid possible tensions before the approaching start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in April. EFE Despite it being a working day in Israel, a holiday-spirit takes over as people drink and party in the streets, especially in the more liberal city of Tel Aviv. While last year the government imposed a night curfew in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19, this year’s celebration saw bars open and no capacity restrictions.

Dear all, During the Festival of Purim, Jews read Megillat Esther, the biblical scroll that recounts the survival of our people from near annihilation in.

Yes, finding the right moment in time can be a challenge. How do we know where our safe spaces are? How do we know who will listen with a full heart?

The holiday celebrates the saving of the Jewish people from a plot to destroy them in ancient Persia. It's the first time Purim overlaps with St. Patrick's ...

People read the story of the holiday, dress up in costumes, give gifts to each other and the poor, and eat festive meals. Management at the Butcherie in Brookline, a Jewish grocery, said the store had been gearing up for the holiday for a month. "It's a very happy holiday, a lot of celebrating, lots of food, good food, and a little bit of wine, a little bit more of wine," said Rabbi Shmuel Posner of the Chabad House of Greater Boston.

Before this week, Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya's last trip to Ukraine from her home in Israel was in January, when the city of Chernivtsi sparkled with Christmas ...

There, Gritsevskaya posted a video of her community’s members preparing for the holiday by putting up decorations, painting a mural and baking hamantaschen. It was, he wrote, “a kind of expression of trust in the community in Chernivtski, of hope, hope for better days.” Gritsevskaya made the trip for Purim, the holiday celebrating the survival of the Jews over the efforts of a murderous villain to massacre them. Over the past three weeks, those couples have worked to make sure their community members are safe and healthy despite Russian bombing that in many places has been relentless. (Estimates of Ukraine’s Jewish population range widely; the lowest comes from a recent survey that found 43,000 people who self-identified as Jewish.) But she was far from the only one on the ground facilitating a war-torn celebration.

This year, as Jewish and Irish people celebrate together, we remember the last time the two booze-centric holidays collided, and the 1984 SNL skit that was ...

“I would like to ask everyone watching to go out and buy a copy — and don’t just read a friend’s copy — buy your own. “What a fine, fine, fine St. Patrick’s Day it’s been,” she says. “But to us Jewish people, this is Purim… It’s a celebration of a day a long, long time ago, when the Jewish people didn’t get beat up again. “No, I’m here to plug my book,” says Koch, to loud cheers, holding up a very real copy of his autobiography, “Mayor,” which was published that year. New York Jewish Week — The joyous and, yes, slightly drunken holidays of St. Patrick’s Day and Purim both fall on March 17 this year. “Mayor Koch, what are you doing leading the St. Patrick’s Day Parade?” our Irish host asks the Jewish politician, who was mayor from 1978 to 1989.

It was during Purim just two years ago (though it now feels like a lifetime) that the coronavirus first broke out in Israel.

The Jewish festival of Purim sees Jews all over the world celebrating another failed attempt at someone attempting to wipe them out by drinking lots of ...

“It's the least serious Jewish festival about one of the most serious tales in Jewish history. Without going into too much religious detail, Purim is when Jewish people celebrate the time when the evil Haman – who ran the Achaemenid Empire, which stretched from parts of Macedonia to a bit of India – was stopped in his plans from killing all of Persia's Jews. And as the joke says, most Jewish holidays are about not dying, and then eating and drinking to celebrate. For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here. Reality star goes topless as she cheekily promotes her new lingerie lineLingerieAustralian reality TV babe Abbie Chatfield got fans got under the collar as she went completely topless to promote her new lingerie collaboration with brand Souszy IntimatesThe Chase's Bradley Walsh floored as male contestant reveals royal link on ITV showThe ChaseThe Chase host Bradley Walsh couldn't believe it when he met cabinet-maker John walked in the ITV studio - and the handyman boasted a surprising connection to Zara Tindall MBEUkrainians desperately scrawl 'children' outside theatre begging Russians not to attackRussia Ukraine warSatellite images showed the desperate plea from locals to avoid any further bombings from the Russian air force on the once-elegant theatre in Mariupol that acted as a mass shelterMan Utd star Marcus Rashford wanted by Barcelona and his phone 'hasn't stopped ringing'Marcus RashfordManchester United striker Marcus Rashford is wanted by Barcelona amid his unsettled position at his current club, and reports claim that his phone has not stopped ringing “Jews cannot afford for our environments to be secure in order to have a great time - we have to find ways of celebrating ourselves in places that wish we wouldn't. “We steal opportunities to make light even when it's very dark.” This time of year is commonly associated with St Patrick's Day and Spring Break. But for the world's 15.2 million Jewish people, it's also known as the time when the festival of Purim is celebrated.