Posts Tagged: purim
5,000 Goodie Baskets for Israeli Soldiers on Purim
The Zionist Organization of America's (ZOA) Brooklyn Region will be distributing 5,000 Mishloach Manot (picture below) baskets to Israeli soldiers serving on bases in Israel...
A New Look at Purim
On the holiday of Purim, Jewish communities around the world read from the Book of Esther, traditionally known as the Megillah—the "Scroll". The Megillah tells...
Purim: Are You Doing it Right?
Purim is a festival renown for celebration, excessive drinking and wild, outlandish costumes; or, as Chasids in Brooklyn call it, Tuesday. It's the...
An Open Letter to a Concealed G-d
Dear G-d, It's been a while. How are You? Though You didn't ask, let me share with You how we are. Bluntly put: We're not doing so...
Israel Cares Celebrates Purim in New York
In addition to the feasting and festivity, masquerade and Megilla inherent to the joyous celebration of the holiday of Purim, Jews are instructed to recognize...
You Eat Your Humentashen, You Take Your Chances
Purim is known as "the fun holiday." It's a time during which people dress in costumes, dance, party, and are enjoined to drink alcohol. But...
Israel an Apartheid State? I laugh!
I always find it hard to control my laugher this time of year. It's the Hebrew month of Adar, in which Jews are always a...
Museum Event Quotes Mordechai, Masks Identities
Presto, it's Purim! The Jewish Museum's annual Purim Ball brought more than 500 art and magic aficionados to the Waldorf Astoria for the Museum's twenty-fifth...
