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This year for Purim, have your child dress up as one of the characters from the Book of Esther—or go less traditional and DIY or buy a costume from pop culture. The springtime Jewish holiday of ...

A Mad Hatter Purim costume from a street fair in Tel Aviv in 2015. Image by Flickr. By Ari Feldman March 21, 2019. View this post on Instagram.

Additionally, the chain’s Purim section offers around 1,500 complementary accessories across various categories. All costumes are available in an unprecedented range of sizes, from 6-month-old ...

What could be better than candy, costumes and booze? How about all three? Jews across the world will celebrate Purim — the most joyous and fun Jewish holiday of the year — from the eve of ...

The first mention of the use of costumes to celebrate Purim was by Rabbi Yehuda Minz, a 15th century Italian rabbi who made the argument that costume-wearing, even crossdressing, is permissible ...

Purim 2019: When Is Purim? Why Do People Wear Costumes? Published Mar 20, 2019 at 5:00 AM EDT Updated Mar 20, 2019 at 10:53 PM EDT. By . Jenni Fink is a senior editor at Newsweek, based in New York.

Many of the costume accessories sold on Purim are disposables, made of plastic – wrapped in plastic, which only adds to Israel’s glaring plastic waste problem. Forwarding the News.

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes, celebrate the festival of Purim at a synagogue in Bnei Brak, Israel, March 17, 2022.

Costumes and masks are the physical manifestation of the topsy-turvy lesson of Purim: Nothing is as it seems. Within the Book of Esther, the royal power is a bumbling fool.

After Lakewood children wore costumes in blackface for Purim, leaders of the NAACP and Orthodox Jewish community are looking to stop it in the future.

Purim celebrates the story of Queen Esther saving the Jews from the hateful Haman. Traditionally, people are encouraged to wear costumes and drink to mild excess.