Purim traditions include reading the Megillah, exchanging food gifts, giving to the needy, and dressing in costumes.
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The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.
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 ...
Video shows Yehuda Gerami dancing with students, reading megillah scroll at site believed by local community to be in ancient ...
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, ...
He describes the Jews of the Purim story as being genocidal: The book of Esther doesn’t end with Haman’s death. It continues because although Haman is gone, his edict to kill the Jews remains.
As we gather for the joyous holiday of Purim, we celebrate the miraculous salvation of the Jewish people from Haman’s wicked plot, as told in the Book of Esther. On this holiday, we read the ...
The National Library of Israel is lending the 400-year-old artifact to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah ...