“Until recently, dressing up on Purim was an unknown concept in Middle Eastern Jewish communities. But making a puppet of Haman and hanging it on a tree near the synagogue was the holiday’s ...

It’s not hard to imagine how public Purim execrations of Haman, conducted by an inebriated crowd of Jews, could easily be misperceived by Christian observers, especially if the effigy of Haman ...

Purim is the Jewish holiday commemorating when Queen Esther saved the Jews from her husband’s advisor, Haman’s, wrath. Haman ...

Purim is a celebration commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people of ancient Persia from the scheming minister, Haman. The story is one of intrigue and divine intervention, ending in Haman ...

Haman was the King’s helper. To celebrate Purim, people eat special triangle biscuits called hamantaschen.

Find out how you can make a gragger and what they are used for. The Purim story features a villain called Haman, and everyone in the synagogue boos, hisses, stamps their feet and uses noisemakers ...