Purim, a Jewish holiday commemorating the salvation ... Nowadays, the holiday is celebrated by giving gifts, helping the poor and having a feast. Jewish children dress up in costumes, often ...

the jokes stopped and a monitor that had displayed Purim-themed memes went dark. That’s because Chapter Nine of the story, recounted in a book of the Bible called Megillat Esther, contains a ...

The story of Purim is found in the Book of Esther, part of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old ... of the story of the Purim miracle, a feast, charitable giving, and dressing up in costumes.

Yet, according to the fourth-century sage Rava, it is a religious commandment for a person not only to drink but “to become intoxicated with wine on Purim until he does not know how to distinguish ...