On holiday when norms turned on head, there's a phenomenon of Haredi kids smoking, despite dismay of some rabbis; Health Ministry says those children risk getting hooked for life

Bakeries from Warsaw to Portland sign up for 'Hamantaschen For Ukraine' initiative; one notes that 'Purim is a holiday about survival and fight'

Benny Friedman announced last week that he’s working on new Purim music. It seems Benny will be releasing a few songs or maybe even an album of him singing your favorite Purim songs!

Avner Moriah’s version of the Purim story is 28.03 meters long, around the length of a basketball court

A satyrical article published for Purim by The Jewish Link tried to joke that shooting 100,000 Palestinians referred to COVID-19 'shots'; was condemned by local Muslim groups

NAACP chapter seeks meeting with Jewish leaders in Lakewood after children photographed wearing blackface, Afro wigs and Black Lives Matter sweatshirts

Official tells newspaper that government needs to see if illicit gatherings negatively affect morbidity rate

Revelers stream into capital as virus transmission rate ticks upward; police enter ultra-Orthodox neighborhood to remove hanged effigy of officer

R-value shows virus spread nearly at point of expansion again; health minister implores Jerusalemites to 'leave the parties until after the coronavirus'

Doll made by Jewish girl in 1951 for holiday show is emblematic of tradition of fashioning villain after real-life oppressors that peaked in the postwar years