Not ordinary clothing. The bigdei kehunah – the priestly garments – described in painstaking, almost overwhelming detail. Fabrics, colors, threads of gold, precise measurements, engraved stones, woven ...

The Daily Graphic engraving depicting the Hebrew Purim Ball at Terrace Garden Theatre in New York on March 13, 1873. The legal and ethical question of mandatory masking has become one of the great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of Purim comes from the biblical book of Esther, which centers on the Jewish Queen Esther, wife of the Persian King ...

Torah teaches that “you shall rejoice in your festivals,” bringing opportunities to bless, to sing, to share in convivial celebration, but none so outrageously as the holiday of Purim. It is between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Purim, a Jewish holiday that celebrates freedom and deliverance, begins March 2 at sundown. Purim is often misunderstood as ...

Two years. It’s been two years since we’ve seen an UnMasked World. Two years of children breathing their own imperfectly brushed tooth-smells, two years of N95 synthetic creating a layer of “mascne” ...

Let's see here. Ah yes, Esther, the Persian heroine of her own book in the Hebrew Bible, wins a beauty contest and becomes queen.Not too shabby. Meantime, the villainous Haman, the king's top adviser, ...

Every year when Purim arrives, we tell the same story about a concealed queen, a fragile king, a furious villain, and a people whose very survival depended on courage, timing, and identity. But Purim ...