Purim

King (Cakes) & Queen (Esther)

If you’ve never lived in the South, you might not be familiar with King Cakes. The brightly colored yellow-green-and-purple treats ...

After watching The Interview I recalled a particular Purim shpiel (a comic dramatization) from nearly 30 years ago. It was a ...

In this alliterative Mensch Madness match up, Mordechai and Moses are about to meet!This match is tough, because both of ...

My husband and I are binge-watching Lost , a 2004-2010 TV series. An airplane crashes, leaving survivors stranded without rescue ...

The story of Esther teaches us many things, amongst them, that timing is everything.This year, the women’s Megillat Esther reading ...

Have you seen the gorgeous rainbow hamantaschen making its way around the internet in time for Purim? I first noticed ...

Before we crash headlong into the various celebratory, lighthearted posts about Purim, I want to draw your attention to something: ...

This year on Purim, several minyanim in the U.S. and in Israel will be reading the Megillah with a twist. ...

Purim’s less than a week away, so we’re busy making rainbow hamantaschen and rereading The Purim Superhero , by Elisabeth ...

Several years ago, I started a new job in a new city and wanted to check out a local synagogue. ...

A few weeks ago a recipe started making rounds on the Internet. Not just any recipe, but a recipe for ...

Purim is about concealment. More specifically, it is about movement from the covert to the overt. There is a sustained ...