Adar is the month of Purim, and it carries a particular kind of Jewish joy. It is not joy that ignores what is hard. It is ...

Adar arrives each year with a directive that sounds beautifully simple: Increase your joy. It is inspiring, deeply Jewish, ...

A community cannot shrug off responsibility when its members nearly lynch two Jewish women in uniform -- that is a desecration of God's name ...

Known as a month of celebration and happiness, as it says in the Megillah, “Vehachodash asher nehepach – the month that was transformed,” stating clearly that the entire month is a month of ...

Our sages teach that there are four mitzvot on Purim. We gather to hear the story of Esther and how our people were saved. We give matanot la’evyonim to ensure that those in need can celebrate with ...

This year, Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Adar, the final month of the Hebrew calendar, fell on the same day. Lent, as is commonly portrayed, is a season of self-flagellation, of doom and gloom.

Jews around the world will celebrate Purim, which begins on Wednesday evening. But another Purim — “Purim Katan,” or Little Purim — began on the evening of Feb. 14. Purim Katan is the only Jewish ...