Purim begins on the evening of March 13, 2025, and concludes at sundown on March 14, 2025.

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This year, the festival is extended to three days in walled cities – adding the day before and the day after – giving rise to ...

On the Jewish calendar, today is Taanit Esther (the Fast of Esther), a religious observance immediately preceding the Jewish ...

As Jews marked Purim, Iran’s Khamenei denied the Holocaust, echoing past enemies. History proves one thing: Jews remember, ...

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

Gateshead's Jewish community came together to celebrate the festival of Purim. Celebrations for the sacred centuries-old ...

The pervasive culture of cynicism encourages us to lower our expectations, to view optimism with suspicion, and to label ...

Taoiseach Micheál Martin “categorically” did not tell American Jewish groups that the Occupied Territories Bill had been ...

It seems like no coincidence, then, that we read Esther and Ruth at the beginning and end of this period in the year.