Some demonstrators claim public transportation halt over the Jewish holiday is intended to limit protests; man arrested for allegedly tear-gassing protester

While American Jews debated the meaning of the holiday after the Holocaust, Hitler's top 'Jew-baiter' -- Nazi publisher Julius Streicher -- invoked Purim from the Nuremberg gallows

Few reports of police enforcement as throngs ignore pleas of health officials and take to the streets to celebrate the costume holiday

South Korea, Jerusalem, Moscow, Berlin, Brooklyn: Jewish communities around the globe don costumes for holiday despite COVID

Dozens of gatherings take place both indoors and outdoors, with health officials concerned crowds will lead to new spike in infections that could delay reopening economy

4.65 million of country's 9.29 million population receives one shot, with 3.27 million of them getting recommended second dose as well; over 85% aged 70-plus received both doses

Team suggests reassessing plans to further ease restrictions; new mutation on rise in NYC shares characteristics with South African strain, may curb vaccine effectiveness

Illegal celebrations dispersed in Jerusalem, Haifa, Beit Shemesh and more; police official: 'We all know repercussions, but some willing to endanger themselves and their families'

Government said likely to halt public transportation to Jerusalem on Saturday night and Sunday; IDF to shutter crossings with West Bank, Gaza over holiday

Sharon Alroy-Preis cites rising COVID-19 reproduction number and slowly declining number of severe patients in questioning PM's timetable for normalcy by April