The Purim for African Youth Development Platform (PURIM), a non-governmental organisation, has empowered vulnerable ...

But with that said, Purim falls on a Thursday and Friday in 2025, so you don't have to keep it low-key because it's nearly the weekend. You can even go all-out with a festive Purim party.

Most of the items on a Persian Purim menu could have been enjoyed by Queen Esther. The palace cooks in Susa, the city now in eastern Iran that was then the capital of Persia, might easily have ...

On Purim in 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American Israeli settler, killed 29 Palestinian Muslims kneeling in prayer at the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron.

For Rava, Purim is a day on which we celebrate the Jewish people’s ability to see beyond the faces of hypocrisy and self-interest and to connect to the Torah and infinite source of life that ...

How Purim, Judaism’s Boozy Rejoinder to Halloween, Shook My Faith On Purim, the Talmud says, “one is obligated to get so drunk that he doesn’t know the difference between Haman and Mordechai.” ...

If Purim falls on Friday, the custom is preferably to begin the meal before noon, but there are other possibities (see below). Purim joy was observed even when the Jewish people were in harsh ...

Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar, which usually coincides with the month of March. Purim 2020 begins Monday night, March 9, and continues Tuesday, March 10.

Purim is often marked with parades and fancy dress, a custom that 13th century Italian Jews are thought to have adopted from the pre-Lent masquerades held by their Christian neighbours, Haaretz ...