Interestingly, Purimâ s importance for Iranian Jews has even been enhanced by a non-Jewish holiday. Purim typically coincides with the festivities of No Ruz, the secular Persian New Year.

This year, Purim is March 6 and 7. But, as stated, the Jewish calendar operates on a different schedule than the US calendar, the solar Gregorian calendar.

Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrating joy and salvation, begins Saturday evening and ends Sunday evening. Among the celebrations: many Jewish children will dress up and feast on triangular sweets on ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sunset, Saturday, March 23. At synagogues across the world, people will read the Book of Esther. But its story of celebration is followed by another, ...

No. Purim doesn't fall on the same date each year because the Hebrew calendar isn't the same as the secular Gregorian calendar. In the Hebrew calendar, Purim is on the 14th day of the month of ...

On Purim, Jews give money to the poor, gift their friends with food and hold a feast where adults drink until they don't "know the difference between 'cursed be Haman' ...

Sunday is the Jewish holiday of Purim, a commemoration of the defeat of Haman, a king’s aide under the Achaemenid Empire who planned to massacre all of the Jews — and Jews in Teaneck, NJ, are ...

(RNS) — On the Jewish holiday of Purim, which falls on March 14 this year, gifts of food are exchanged, charity is generously ...

On Thursday, March 10, Keshet: LGBTQ Jews at NYU will hold a “Drag Persona Purim Party,” inviting guests to pick a “name, a costume, a signature song and some moves to go along with it ...

Nearly 80 years after the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the former capital of the Third Reich is a haven for Jews fleeing the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

(RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are encouraged — in synagogue no less — as Jews gather for a ...