Stuart Meyers created Flaminggg as an “intentionally Jewish nightlife experience for queer adult Jews” that is unattached to a synagogue or larger Jewish organization. (New York Jewish Week) — Stuart ...

Get your party on; Purim is almost here! The holiday is one of the most joyous and fun on the Jewish calendar, complete with everything from feasts to costumes to wine, all in honor of Queen Esther ...

From Purim baskets to hamentaschen, here's where these customs came from From Purim baskets to hamentaschen, here's where these customs came from This week, Jewish people around the world are ...

For many Jews, Purim may be the holiday when five-year-olds dress up like Queen Esther and 25-year-olds drink “until they can’t tell the difference between Mordechai and Haman,” but in recent years, ...

I remember the first time I noticed something strange about the megillah, the biblical Book of Esther that is read aloud in synagogues worldwide today, on the Jewish holiday of Purim. It was ten years ...

Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the ...

The story of Purim dates back to the Persian Empire of the 4th century BCE. At the center of the story is King Ahasuerus, who met Esther, a Jewish girl at a mandatory beauty pageant he arranged with ...

Gifts, costumes, groggers, and above all: hamantaschen. All of these items commemorate the jolly Jewish holiday Purim. Each year, it is celebrated on the 14th day of the Hebrew month “Adar,” which ...

"After-school fun making hamentashen," the daughter of President Trump wrote. — -- First daughter Ivanka Trump shared a photo Friday of herself and her two eldest children preparing for the ...

One of the most important customs of Purim, the Jewish holiday that begins at sundown Thursday and lasts through sundown Friday, is the giving of food. The practice, called mishloach manot in Hebrew, ...

Jewish communities are celebrating Purim this week. The festival allows even the most buttoned-down orthodox sects to let loose for a day of costumes and carousing, fuelled by religiously mandated ...