Purim, or the Feast of Lots, is a Biblical Jewish festival known for extravagant costumes, the exchanging of gift baskets, ...

Brooklyn-based contemporary circus company ABCirque presents an acrobatic, family-friendly event where “everything’s accepted.” It’s nearly Purim — this year, the holiday begins on the ...

Jewish children in Demnate, Morocco, participate in an Alliance Israélite Universelle Purim program in 1955 (AIU/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) My late maternal grandmother, Iran (yes ...

It goes “Purim por un lado, Pesah en la mano ... (overnight brown eggs), salads and dips. Boyos are an old recipe passed down from generation to generation of Sephardic families who ...

Joachim Prinz writes that when their neighbors knelt and prayed to the Catholic Madonna, the Marrano women’s thoughts “were with Esther.” Such is the power of the Purim story, and the struggle of the ...

Yom Kippur, the day of Divine forgiveness after the sin of the Golden Calf. The logic is consistent: We remember what happened when it happened. Except for Purim. The story of Esther unfolds with ...

When she was in kindergarten, I took my daughter to see a joyfully chaotic puppet show for Purim. On our way out, I asked her what she thought of the play. “I liked it,” she said, then paused ...

Purim is approaching, and while most children are giddy with excitement, newly orphaned children of fallen soldiers are drowning in their grief too much to feel any shred of happiness. A campaign ...

Beans and grains like pasta or rice were abundant and affordable, making pasta e fagioli a dietary staple across the Italian countryside for centuries. Here is my authentic recipe passed down for ...

And recently, for 4 Nations Face-Off, popular Sweden-based designer David Gunnarsson created masks for goalies on each team. The modern game leans on style in a way it didn’t in the past ...