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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 ...

We sent a team of Jewish kids armed with disposable cameras out to Purim celebrations across the Bay Area. Here's what they ...

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 ...

AP — The Purim holiday is usually marked in Israel with boisterous street parades and costume parties to celebrate the Jewish victory over an ancient Persian ruler. This year, the celebrations moved ...

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 ...

The war did not stop ultra-Orthodox parts of Jerusalem from drinking and dancing for the Jewish holiday. By Natan Odenheimer Reporting from Jerusalem Not even sirens warning of incoming ballistic ...

Video. Hundreds gathered in an underground parking shelter in Tel Aviv to celebrate Purim, as public events were restricted ...

When sirens and cellphone alerts blare warnings of missiles incoming from Iran, people in Israel stream into shelters, ...