Purim

In the Big Apple, the Admor Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto will hold the Purim feast at the world headquarters of the Shuva Israel institutions in Manhattan. Thousands ...

All of the public is invited and welcome. Thousands of his students will attend festivities on Tuesday afternoon, which will be accompanied by singers and musicians. Watch the live broadcast of Rabbi Pinto’s Torah class and the Purim celebrations.

Church records tell of a Jewish woman's 1688 confession to admiring Queen Esther, who also hid her Jewish identity. Her community prepared special foods for ...

Drain the chickpeas and add to the boiling water. Beat the egg and slowly add it to the stew while stirring. Cut up the remaining onion, heat some olive oil in a frying pan and saute the onion over a medium flame. The evening before cooking, place the dry chickpeas in a large bowl with water to cover. In 2011 the Israeli Rabbinate recognized them as Jews, and significantly, noted that Purim was very meaningful to the Mallorcan Jewish community. There is a long history of baking sweet cheesecakes in Mallorca, dating back to the Savillum of the Ancient Romans. She considered herself part of the “Hebrew nation” and hoped for a future in which the Jewish people would return to the Land of Israel. Antoni Contreras Mas was able to complete the translation from the original Catalan and discerned that garvellones were hearts of palm. In the Balearic Islands of the late 17th century, hearts of palm were the poor man’s artichokes, explained Contreras Mas. Cortés’s testimony to the Inquisition demonstrates that the Mallorcan crypto-Jews maintained these customs in their covert Purim celebration. A long version of the Book of Esther, which includes several verses from the Apocrypha, is part of the Catholic Bible. The text was therefore available as a reference to the crypto-Jews, who heralded the heroine Hadassah as their role model.

(March 6, 2023 / JNS) Tens of thousands of Jews will attend public megillah readings for the Purim holiday organized by two prominent modern Orthodox ...

He continued, saying “on Purim, where we learn about the power of national unity, we need to take a break from all the division and arguments and remember that we are one people in our homeland with a common destiny. Kenneth Brander, president and rosh yeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone network. The community events will also distribute explanatory megillot (scrolls) and mishloach manot food baskets for those in attendance.

Hudson Kaplan,4 , of Rye Brook, N.Y., wears a dinosaur costume in the bounce house during the Purim Carnival at Temple Sholom in Greenwich, Conn.

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Kids dressed in costumes and enjoyed festivities including delicious traditional food during Temple Sinai Stamford's Purim Carnival on Sunday.

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Led by Tzohar and the Ohr Torah Stone organization, the annual program will include new locations this year in Azrieli Malls, where actors will act out the ...

Hundreds of people celebrated the Jewish holiday Purim with a carnival at the Harrisburg Jewish Community Center.As a celebration of the Jewish people's ...

For the first time, Ynetnews brings the atmosphere of the Purim festival to your home, from the international synagogue in Tel Aviv, Tzohar and Ohr Torah Stone ...

This is the only holiday that came to be during the Jewish people's exile from their ancestral land, which is reflected in the nature of the holiday. Ynetnews carried a live broadcast of the readings for our readers. Purim is a holiday of thanksgiving for the miraculous rescue of the Jewish people during the Persian Empire.

(JTA) — When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles ...

Some Orthodox rabbis permit women to read the megillah for other women, but prohibit it in front of men. But he wasn’t comfortable telling the scribe the megillah would go to a woman, and instead said it was a gift for his son-in-law. He later decides that despite his discomfort he should be more flexible in the future, within the constraints of Orthodox law, to make the woman he loves feel respected. She usually reads half of the scroll, including a difficult passage in the ninth chapter. In recent years, a growing number of Orthodox women rabbinic leaders have weighed in on the question as well. “It is kind of the one semi-kosher or kosher thing that women in more [religiously] right-wing communities can do,” Friedman said. Still others worry that a women’s megillah reading will act as a sort of gateway to non-Orthodox practice more broadly. For many modern Orthodox women more than four decades later, women’s megillah readings have moved from the cutting edge to squarely within the norm. She chanted the Scroll of Esther, known as the megillah, in front of a mixed-gender audience in suburban Washington, D.C. Although traditional Jewish law, or halacha, obligates women to hear the megillah on par with men, many more traditionalist Orthodox communities still do not hold women’s megillah readings. But she took the rite of passage a step further, and did something that, for Orthodox Jews at the time, was considered the exclusive province of men. “My father, when it came time for the bat mitzvah, was trying to figure out what was something meaningful that a young woman could do,” she said.

The COLlive Purim Costume Contest is back! Send in a photo wearing a costume (child, adult, individual or family), vote, and win a drone, Camera EOS Rebel ...

As of this past weekend, it's also a place where dogs and their owners can celebrate Jewish holidays together. As part of the museum's “Furry Fridays” program — ...

“I also think I wouldn’t have it on Shabbos next year — I would plan something around it so we wouldn’t have a conflict in that case, and we could definitely invite more of the Jewish community.” “I would love to do this again,” she said. As for Shayna Maydele, Silverstone said in an email after the event that her pup “loved interacting with the other dogs. Their pug, Monster, had been dressed as the Beast from “Beauty and the Beast,” but they had removed his costume before heading out into the drizzly evening. (The clever costume, handmade by Safer, took “too long” to make, she said.) “I saw the article on Shayna Maydele and I really wanted to do something with her,” Moshenberg said. — and Loli, a tiny shih-poo who was dressed as Sulley from “Monsters, Inc.” “I also didn’t want to assume this costume would last more than one night.” “I couldn’t find his costume,” his owner, Robyn, who declined to provide her last name, told me. “Being Jewish myself, I was really excited to do a Jewish event,” Moshenberg, dressed in a bright pink homemade flamingo costume, told me. As Kim and I chatted, an adorable mutt named Henry — dapper in a very “Wall Street”-esque pinstripe suit — entered the scene and immediately demanded belly rubs. In planning the event calendar, Moshenberg had the idea for a “St.

Despite the discourse, Hillel and Chabad anticipate proceeding with plans for the holiday, beginning with the Jewish Student Union's (JSU) Purim Carnival on ...

“I think students are more aware for the need to come together,” he said. Instead of fear, he explains the students have shifted any such feeling to a sense of duty. While recognizing the holiday as important to the Jewish people, he highlights a sense of unity as crucial towards Monday and Tuesday’s celebration. However, he also sees it as a celebration of the Jewish people overcoming forces looking to annihilate them. Acknowledging hamantaschen as his favorite part of the holiday, Jacob Wancier, a third-year student in attendance, sees this as an opportunity to come together as a community. Sunday’s carnival saw a variety of students on the grounds surrounding UF Hillel. “For me, Purim will mean a celebration of overcoming hate,” he said. For Jason Scheuer, former president of Gators for Israel and frequent goer of UF Chabad, the holiday signifies the strength of the Jewish people. With the victory, the Jews rested on the fourteenth of Adar, with the two days being celebrated as Purim each year thereafter. It was the latest in a string of antisemitic displays nationwide. Jonah Zinn, the rabbi at UF Hillel, is among the individuals looking to actively combat any form of hate on campus. Yet the holiday lands during a tense time for the Jewish people.

Traditional Jewish pastries called Hamantaschen are eaten during Purim (Adobe Stock photo). March 6, 2023 – Submitted by Chabad of the South Shore. Hingham, MA ...

Children—and some adventurous adults too—traditionally [dress in costumes](http://www.chabad.org/1456808), an allusion to G‑d’s hand in the Purim miracle, which was disguised by natural events. Purim is observed with the reading of the [Megillah](http://www.chabad.org/1473) (Scroll of Esther) which recounts the story of the Purim miracle, gifting food gifts to friends, giving charity to the needy and enjoying a festive Purim meal. As part of the festivities, there was a “Chanukah Gelt (chocolate coins) Drop” from the top of a Hingham fire truck and holiday greetings were shared by Hingham Selectman Joe Fisher. Those interested in attending the Purim party can RSVP by visiting The holiday commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in Ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “ Ken Paull, a Cohasset resident, lights the 9-foot Menorah at the Hingham Shipyard on the first night of Chanukah, during a community celebration sponsored by Herb Chambers and organized by Chabad of the South Shore. (Photo credit: Josh Ross) At a time we are seeing a rise in antisemitic rhetoric, the Purim celebration takes on added meaning. The event is a community-wide program, and all are welcome to join, regardless of Jewish affiliation or background. “What greater joy can there be than to be surrounded by family and friends in celebration of our rich heritage!” of a decree](http://www.chabad.org/645309#The) calling for the extermination of the Jewish people throughout the Persian Empire. The festivities will be held in Hingham, exact location of the event will be shared upon reservation, on March 7th featuring a buffet dinner and ventriloquist show.

Purim, which starts this evening, is perhaps the queerest Jewish holiday, with a theme of coming out and a tradition of costume wearing.

[Drag Story Hour](https://www.dragstoryhour.org/donate) is a 501c3 nonprofit, and it has a [network](https://www.dragstoryhour.org/chaptermap) of numerous local organizations. [The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish](https://mombian.com/database/the-hips-on-the-drag-queen-go-swish-swish-swish/) and [If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It](https://mombian.com/database/if-youre-a-drag-queen-and-you-know-it/), by Lil Miss Hot Mess, a drag queen who is on the board of [Drag Story Hour](https://www.dragqueenstoryhour.org/). The Purim Superhero [has been banned, too](https://www.timesofisrael.com/florida-school-district-removes-purim-superhero-book-about-jewish-kid-with-2-dads/), amidst a spate of bans in Florida related to LGBTQ and racial identities. (My suggestions, which will make more sense if you know the [story of Purim](https://www.kveller.com/article/the-purim-story/): “The Lips of Queen Vashti Said No, No, No”; and “If You’re a Jew and You Know It.” If you’re not Jewish, you can join in with “If You’re an Ally and You Know It.”) If you want to help fight book bans, too, the [National Coalition Against Censorship](https://ncac.org/donate) and [PEN America](https://donorbox.org/donate-to-pen-america) are among the many 501c3 organizations working to stop them. [interpret the obligation more broadly](https://reformjudaism.org/jewish-holidays/purim/purim-social-action-guide) and urge taking action towards other forms of social justice on this day. (I suspect that at least one more of them has Jewish authorship, but have not been able to confirm.) For many Jewish denominations today, of course (like the Reform movement I am part of), that prohibition isn’t something we follow at any time—but the point is that [drag and Purim have a long and close connection](https://www.heyalma.com/drag-performers-turn-purim-into-a-queer-joy-extravaganza/). [an old (16th century!) and widely accepted interpretation of Jewish law](https://www.sefaria.org/Shulchan_Arukh%2C_Orach_Chayim.696.8?lang=en) says that on Purim, one may explicitly suspend the traditional prohibition of men wearing women’s clothing and vice versa. Purim is a commemoration of the deliverance of the Jews in the Persian Empire from a plot to destroy them. Part of the Purim tale involves Queen Esther, the wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus, revealing to her husband that she is a Jew, and convincing him not to heed his evil counselor Haman and kill all the Jews. Celebrate with a queer-inclusive Purim kids’ book and books by a Jewish drag queen—and consider fulfilling the holiday’s charitable obligation by supporting drag story times for kids!

Video reportedly from Huwara showed both IDF soldiers and settlers dancing to Purim music in the middle of the Palestinian town around the time of the ...

The video showed the settlers surrounding a vehicle with Palestinians inside, smashing some of the windows and attempting to break in before the driver reversed and drove away. The militias of [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben-Gvir are the real anarchists. The IDF stated that it would investigate the matter of the dancing soldiers, adding that their behavior "does not align with what is expected from soldiers during operational activity." According to Palestinian reports, settlers shot at a vehicle a Palestinian family was driving in the town as well. Soldiers stood by and did nothing," said a resident of Givat Ronen who drove through the town. "Dozens of Arabs gathered, some of them with bats.

(JTA) — Starting tonight, many Jews around the world will celebrate Purim in the same ways: by reading the story of the heroic Queen Esther, ...

The story tells of an apostate named Marcus who slandered the Jewish community to a non-Jewish king, putting their status in jeopardy. Both cities were part of the Spanish empire in 1492 and were depopulated of Jews following the Inquisition. Jews would go on to celebrate that day, the 29th of Tevet (usually in January). Within a few years after Gaddafi’s decree, Libya’s Jewish community had dwindled to less than two dozen, effectively ending the nearly 3,000-year history of Jews there.) “On the 21st of Teveth, Friday evening, of the year 5451 (1690), at 8 and a quarter, there was a powerful earthquake. Ever since, Bosnian Jews have celebrated that story by visiting the grave of the Sarajevan Jewish historian Zeki Effendi, who was the first to document it. The story could have been entirely fabricated. Ali Burghul, an Ottoman officer who was installed after the downfall of the Qaramanli dynasty, ruled the region brutally for two years, treating minorities particularly harshly. In that year, the story goes, a local dervish was murdered, prompting the corrupt Ottoman pasha of Sarajevo, a high-ranking official, to kidnap 11 prominent Jews, including the community’s chief rabbi, a kabbalist named Moshe Danon. Though the city’s Jewish community was largely spared by the Holocaust, it has slowly declined over the years and is believed to have fewer than 100 members today. Other Ancona Purims were established a half and three-quarters of a century later, respectively. So local Jews, Muslims and Christians rebelled together, storming the pasha’s palace and freeing the imprisoned community leaders.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – The Jewish Community is celebrating the holiday of Purim starting tonight. It lasts through tomorrow.

Every person really inside is a miracle, is a piece of God, and therefore overlook the costume, and we’ll be able to bring people together in a much stronger and a more efficient way. This is a special occasion of Purim as this year’s celebration coincides with Hakhel, which comes once every seven years and encourages those of the Jewish faith to come together. Rabbi Shaul Perlstein, the director for the Chabad Jewish Center of Chattanooga, said, “When we look at any person, we come across people who are angry, who are all different types of people that maybe we don’t like, or it doesn’t feel good when we meet them on a regular day but “No” says the Rebbe (a spiritual leader) that this is just a costume.

Purim commemorates the saving of the Jewish people by Queen Esther and her cousin and adoptive father Mordecai in Persia from Haman, an official of the Persian ...

In many Orthodox circles, women are rarely given the opportunity to read Torah for fear it will make them think women can be rabbis.

Some Orthodox rabbis permit women to read the Megillah for other women, but prohibit it in front of men. He later decides that despite his discomfort he should be more flexible in the future, within the constraints of Orthodox law, to make the woman he loves feel respected. She usually reads half of the scroll, including a difficult passage in the ninth chapter. But he wasn’t comfortable telling the scribe the Megillah would go to a woman, and instead said it was a gift for his son-in-law. In recent years, a growing number of Orthodox women rabbinic leaders have weighed in on the question as well. “It is kind of the one semi-kosher or kosher thing that women in more [religiously] right-wing communities can do,” Friedman said. Still others worry that a women’s Megillah reading will act as a sort of gateway to non-Orthodox practice more broadly. The increasing number of women’s readings is an indication of the growth of Orthodox feminism — and its concrete expression in Jewish ritual. Although traditional Jewish law, or halacha, obligates women to hear the Megillah on par with men, many more traditionalist Orthodox communities still do not hold women’s Megillah readings. According to the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, at least 105 women-led Megillah readings, for both mixed-gender and women-only audiences, are taking place worldwide this year. [Scroll of Esther](https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/these-jewish-women-say-celebrating-purim-in-the-metoo-era-is-different-543214), known as the Megillah, in front of a mixed-gender audience in suburban Washington, D.C. When Alyza Lewin became a bat mitzvah in 1977, the fact that she had a ritual ceremony at all was still relatively revolutionary in Orthodox circles.

We need to break the cycle of revenge, and accept that the Israeli government cannot hold random Palestinians accountable for the murder of Jews.

Both are working to change the end of the megillah in Israel and the Palestinian territories. That if we show up for one another and ensure one another’s physical and economic safety and well-being, the city becomes a better place for all of us. In the video that was circulating, the settlers were reciting the words of Kaddish, the prayer for the dead, sometime before or after a resident of nearby Zu’tara, Sameh Aqtash, was shot and killed. Visions of this unredeemed world were on view in recent days as we watched the multi-directional, free-flowing hate catching fire in America, in Israel and in the West Bank. The shooter had fallen into a conspiracy rabbit hole and believed that Jews had manufactured and released the COVID-19 virus in an attempt to target Asians. It initially caught me off guard during a discussion while we were still dating, back in 1993: “You know, of course, that Purim is all about confronting the impossibility of redemption.” (Of course?!) In short, the king’s viceroy Haman decides capriciously that the Jews must be killed, and the king agrees.

Ahead of this year's Purim celebrations, which commence in the evening of Monday, March 6, we take a look at some festive greetings.

The traditional greeting on Purim is “happy Purim.” This translates to chag Purim sameach in Hebrew. It is believed that the word “Pur” finds its origins in Persian languages. It commemorates the survival of

Have you read the Book of Esther in the Bible lately? Did you know the Jewish celebration of Purim was born out of that story? This year 2023, the Purim ...

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Learn about the Jewish Festival of Lots and its traditions, including how to make your own gragger at home. Purim, the Jewish Festival of Lot.

Step 4: Take a piece of paper and wrap it around the can. Empty it out and clean out the insides so there is no food residue. The purpose of the gragger is to drown out Haman’s name. In the synagogue service where the Megillah is read, children dress up in costumes and wear masks. Haman, the king’s adviser, was plotting to execute all of the Jewish people living in the country, and Esther’s cousin Mordecai discovered the scheme. This year it is in March, starting at sundown on March 6 and ending at sundown the following day.

EXPLAINING THE Sarajevo Haggadah in the Sarajevo Museum. (photo credit: Richard Rinberg). Purim is a story repeated all over the world. Not just the texts, but ...

The story tells of an apostate named Marcus who slandered the Jewish community to a non-Jewish king, putting their status in jeopardy. It was well known enough that an American Reform rabbi from New York would publish a stage play based off of it in the 1940s. Both cities were part of the Spanish empire in 1492 and were depopulated of Jews following the Inquisition. “On the 21st of Teveth, Friday evening, of the year 5451 (1690), at 8 and a quarter, there was a powerful earthquake. Dozens also take part in a pilgrimage every summer to the grave of Rabbi Danon, who is buried in the south of Bosnia, not far from the Croatian border, where he died on his way to what was then Ottoman-controlled Palestine. In that year, the story goes, a local dervish was murdered, prompting the corrupt Ottoman pasha of Sarajevo, a high-ranking official, to kidnap 11 prominent Jews, including the community’s chief rabbi, a kabbalist named Moshe Danon.

Rabbi Zushe Abelsky of Chabad Moldova in appeal to help thousands of Moldovan Jews and Ukrainian Refugees. Donate here, and guarantee a family to have the ...

We need your assistance in aiding the Moldovan Jews and Ukrainian refugees with the financial support that they so desperately need. They too would like their children to rejoice and taste the happiness of Purim, and for this, they need our support. While we will sit down to festive meals with families and friends, thousands of Moldovan Jews and Ukranian refugees are suffering.

On Monday night, members of SU's Jewish community gathered at the Winnick Hillel Center to celebrate the holiday of Purim.

Bair said that joining together as one community is a vital part of Jewish tradition, and he was happy that students were passionate about celebrating their culture. Senior Madi Weinnman, who has been going to Hillel events for the last four years, is very passionate about community service and is grateful for the opportunity to connect with people outside of campus. Bair explained that this idea of masking and uncovering one’s identity is expressed through the different outfits that people wear. In addition to giving back, another important tradition of Purim is that everyone dresses up in costume, Bair said. Bair explained how Jewish people give gifts to members of the community who may be less fortunate. In the story, Haman wanted to find every Jewish person living in Persia and remove them from the land.

"At the end, the Jewish people prevail," said Dan Canfield, a member of Adath Jeshurun synagogue in Hopkins. "You learn that you keep going. Even though it's a ...

Among the many events across the Twin Cities on Monday night was a megillah reading at Mall of America. "I think that sense of community is very important." The Canfields were among hundreds who attended a Purim circus party at Adath on Monday night.

Organizations at the University of Wisconsin are celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, which began March 6 at sundown and goes until sundown on the ...

Attendees were also invited to dress in costume for a Purim feast held at Hillel on Monday evening. [UW panelists discuss what is at stake in Wisconsin Supreme Court ElectionState Representative for Assembly District 76 Francesca Hong, Founder and Director of The Progress Center for Black Women Sabrina Madison Read…](https://badgerherald.com/news/2023/03/02/uw-panelists-discuss-what-is-at-stake-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/) In many ways, Purim is this annual celebration of knowing that despite challenges, hatred, prejudice and even genocide, such as the Holocaust, there’s always tomorrow.”

“Travel” together with us and experience “Purim Around the World!” This is a “Hakhel, year of unity” community celebration. Never miss the best stories and ...

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Jewish people in D.C. area, and around the world, are celebrating Purim on Tuesday.

“The message is there might be one thing on the surface, but there’s something entirely right below the surface,” Geisinsky said. Rather, they doubled-down to celebrate it, be proud of it, and stand for who they were,” said Geisinsky. “Go with ‘Happy Purim,’ that will do,” said Aaron Miller of Washington Hebrew Congregation.

The fun began Monday night with a performance by Maggie the Clown at 5:30 p.m., according to a news release sent to 22News from the LYA. There was also a ...

In the fortress Shushan the Jews killed a total of five hundred men [and the text continues by listing the ten sons of Haman who were also hanged]… The rest of ...

and in the end humanity and justice will win over vulgarity and violence. Do not forget this thing, for when the day comes when you yourself will suffer from the aggression and vulgarity of Amalek… If the day comes and you want to be similar to Amalek and their likes, and you will not know the obligation, and you will know not God, but you will just look for opportunities in small and big matters, to exploit your superiority only to harm mankind, “don’t forget” the moral mission of Israel… The obligation on Purim? And so, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month—that is, the month of Adar—when the king’s command and decree were to be executed, the very day on which the enemies of the Jews had expected to get them in their power, the opposite happened, and the Jews got their enemies in their power. The kids get tired and noisy, and everyone wants to get to the hamantaschen. It was a narcissistic wound that got out of hand. So, he had to issue a second edict, allowing the Jews to defend themselves. Throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, the Jews mustered in their cities to attack those who sought their hurt; and no one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all the peoples..So the Jews struck at their enemies with the sword, slaying and destroying; they wreaked their will upon their enemies. And that little bloody fact never made it into the annals of Persian history? The Jews killed 75,000 Persians? It works wonders for you, psychologically.