The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...

Manger wrote for adults, but the rhyming Purim play could be adapted for children and mixed-age audiences ... character or event in the biblical story. But Kats frames his rhymes with a prologue ...

“My children enjoy it and they’re learning ... “Esther, from the Purim story, is a Persian Jew,” Sassouni said. “Her story is not just central to Purim—it’s also connected to Persian ...

In the United States, parents have imbued their children’s dress ... the significance of his Purim costume choice this year,” one mother wrote on an Instagram story this week.

Scores of Jewish children partaking in the Purim holiday tradition of dressing up in costume ... a book in the third section of the Old Testament that details the miraculous story — exchanging gift ...