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Purim traditions include reading the Megillah, exchanging food gifts, giving to the needy, and dressing in costumes.

Video shows Yehuda Gerami dancing with students, reading megillah scroll at site believed by local community to be in ancient ...

The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

Kings, clowns and princesses mingled Friday night at t Jewish Center with magicians, bears and cowboys. It wasn’t a months-early Halloween party; it was a celebration for the holiday of Purim, which ...

On Purim, Jews celebrate a long-ago victory over hatred, but it's worth praying too for the frustration of some modern ...

One of the staples of Purim is the reading of The Megillah, also known as The Book of Esther. It's done once on Purim night (this year, that'd be the evening of March 13) and once on Purim day ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes read the Book of Esther, which tells the story ...

or almost all of the book of Esther during Purim. Why? How much of the scroll of Esther must one read to fulfill the Mitsvah of reading the Megillah, asks the Mishnah. Rabbi Meir says, ...

The National Library of Israel is lending the 400-year-old artifact to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah ...