LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – The Yeshiva Academy in Longmeadow kicked off its two-day celebration of the Jewish Holiday, Purim, with a celebration of live music. The holiday highlights the victory ...

LONGMEADOW, Mass. (WWLP) – The Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy in Longmeadow continued its celebrations of the Jewish holiday, Purim. The community came together to commemorate the Jewish people of ...

The funhouse sideshow of Charedi life in Israel and in the New York area bursts forth every Purim, as the ultra-Orthodox transform themselves into fez-wearing Turks, medieval noblemen and so on.

(RNS) Too many times, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb has seen the high cost of Purim's darker side, the "ugly and despicable behavior" of young yeshiva students who drink to excess on a day that is ...

Aaron Koller teaches Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, ... Haman's plot is foiled, big cheers, big finish. For most Purim plays, and for many Jews, that's the end of the story.

(JTA) — Haredi Orthodox Jews in Lakewood, New Jersey, are curtailing Purim festivities because of COVID-19. For the first time in 80 years, Beth Medrash Govoha, the yeshiva at the center of the ...

Volozhin was home to the Etz Hayim yeshiva, ... Purim spiels paved inroads to the Conservative and Reform ranks, as well. Isaac Klein, an important Conservative rabbi, ...

Drawing: Volozhin Yeshiva. Measure for Measure. In delivering his Purim compositions, Rav Kook had imitated the Netziv’s manner of speech and enunciation.

Every Purim, Richard Roberts sponsors a party for more than 2,000 people in the heavily Orthodox New Jersey city of Lakewood, where he gives out, by his estimation, some $200,000 in charity.

This Purim, we can hold onto both of these truths at once. ... Rabbi Aviva Richman is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Hadar Institute, where she has been on the faculty since 2010.

He concluded by speaking about Purim, and the Seudah went on as most yeshiva Purim Seudahs do. If I gained nothing in my time in Yeshiva other than those 30 seconds of introductory remarks, ...

The following description of Purim festivities in Rav Kook’s home in Jerusalem, celebrated together with students from his yeshiva, took place in the 1930s, under the shadow of the rise of Nazi ...