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Spider-Man Crawls Up Kotel

I asked Tamar, our intrepid co-blogger here, if there was such a thing as too many wacky Purim photos. Really, ...

White Purim

I wasn’t dreaming of a white Purim, but that’s what we got. Saturday night, Shabbat went out, and I shoveled ...

Purim 2010: A Costume Roundup

This year was definitely my best Purim ever. I had two different costumes, I heard megillah at night and during ...

Merry Purim to All

I don’t know where this picture came from, but it’s doing the email rounds. If anyone has any background on ...

Sympathy Fast for Esther

Today is the Fast of Esther, the fast that comes the day before Purim, since Purim is happening two days ...

VeNahafoch Hu: The Force of Creative Destruction

Purim is a celebration of reversals. The Book of Esther, which is traditionally read twice on the holiday, states in ...

Why Crucify Haman?

Artistic representations of the Purim villain shed light on medieval Jewish and Christian interpretations of the holiday.

Blogger’s Pick: What to Do on Purim

As a kid, Purim was a pretty great holiday. My synagogue had a big carnival with tons of food and ...

Make Your Own Purim Costume

How to be the life of the Purim party.

(Jerry) Wolfman, DDS

Have you seen the new Wolfman movie? Yeah, me neither. Not my cup of tea. Plus Benicio Del Toro is ...

Many Takes on Hamantaschen

We’re closing in on Purim, and in my apartment that means it’s time to start making candy vodka, and of ...

Best of the Week

As of ten minutes ago, I was really happy with the amount of views our Christmas in Calgary video had ...