Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Bonnie Cash/Getty Images/Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Press Purim was different this ...

Every year around this time, Jews read the ancient Scroll of Esther and remember a Persian courtier named Haman who plotted "to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews" of the empire in a ...

JERUSALEM--During the Jewish holiday of Purim, the streets of Israel are normally full of people decked out in costumes, giving gifts of food to each other and singing and dancing. This year, that ...

As Israeli and US attacks on Iran intensify and the conflict spreads across the Middle East, Israelis celebrated Purim this week by drawing parallels with the holiday's story, which tells of the ...

Massive parties were planned this year after a two-year break. The Purim holiday is usually marked with boisterous street parades and costume parties to celebrate the Jewish victory over an ancient ...

A joyful Jewish holiday known for costumes, cookies, and carnivals begins at sundown on March 2 to sundown on March 3— and across California, families and communities will be marking the moment in ...

Hundreds gathered in an underground parking shelter in Tel Aviv to celebrate Purim, as public events were restricted and missile alerts continued. Hundreds of people in costume gathered on level minus ...

Purim is widely depicted as the most thoroughly joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits, noisemakers and varying degrees of rowdiness. It celebrates the ...

In both the Purim narratives, we are given the ability to forge our own fate, to take matters into our own hands, and to carry our nation further towards redemption. To say that we live in historic ...