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Feast on This: Creative and Delicious Recipes for Purim

By JewishBoston

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Where To Find Hamantaschen in Greater Boston

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Activism

This Purim, Support Jews Experiencing Food Insecurity

Food & Recipes

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3/1/2023 Top Pick

Where To Find Hamantaschen in Greater Boston

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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2/21/2023 Top Pick

Recipe: Galit’s Treats Hamantaschen

Galit’s might have closed, but you can make her treats at home.

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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3/7/2022 Top Pick

Where to Get Hamantaschen in Boston in 2022

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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3/2/2022 Top Pick

Fundraiser: Hamantashen for Ukraine

Profits of sales are donated directly by participating bakers to the Polish Humanitarian Action to assist Ukrainian refugees.

By Hamantashen for Ukraine

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3/2/2022 Top Pick

To Help Ukraine, These Jewish Bakers Are Making Hamantaschen

By Joe BaurFor The Nosher

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2/28/2022 Top Pick

It’s a Big Month for Mamaleh’s Delicatessen

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

Crafts & DIY

Traditions & Rituals

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3/9/2020 Top Pick

Purim: Not Your Jewish Halloween

By Dr. Michael LaitmanFor Bnei Baruch Education Center

“Haman Canceled” by Miriam Anzovin (Derivative of “Esther Denouncing Haman” by Ernest Normand/Wikimedia Commons)

3/11/2019 Top Pick

The Millennial Megillah

By Miriam AnzovinFor JewishBoston

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2/21/2018 Top Pick

What Is Shushan Purim?

By JewishBoston

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3/6/2017 Top Pick

Writing the Whole Megillah

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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2/24/2017 Top Pick

Facebook Live: Do Jews Believe in Heaven/Hell and Other Questions

By JewishBoston

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3/7/2016 Top Pick

Did This Really Happen in the Purim Story?

By JewishBoston

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3/18/2022 Top Pick

Boston-Area Jewish Community Celebrates Purim

The holiday is a joyous one and is known as a favorite of Jewish children.

By Chaiel SchaffelFor WBZ NewsRadio

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3/4/2022 Top Pick

Yad Chessed Prepares To Fulfill Purim’s Mitzvah of Tzedakah

Sometimes you just have to ask for help. That’s a message Marsha Finkelstein hopes others in the Jewish community take.

By Penny SchwartzFor Jewish Journal

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3/2/2022 Top Pick

Fundraiser: Hamantashen for Ukraine

Profits of sales are donated directly by participating bakers to the Polish Humanitarian Action to assist Ukrainian refugees.

By Hamantashen for Ukraine

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3/10/2020 Top Pick

How American Synagogues Are Dealing With Coronavirus Panic Ahead of Major Jewish Holidays

Congregations have canceled services and events, and are changing regular procedures—including at least one virtual bar mitzvah.

By Business Insider

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3/2/2020 Top Pick

Taking Off Our Masks for Mental Health

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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2/27/2020 Top Pick

A Hand of Loving Kindness: Supporting Yad Chessed at Purim

By Kara BaskinFor JewishBoston

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3/11/2019 Top Pick

Yavilah McCoy on Racial Justice, the Women’s March and Queen Esther

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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2/26/2018 Top Pick

#ShareHerStory Campaign Elevates Jewish Women’s Voices

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

Arts & Culture

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3/7/2022 Top Pick

Purim Inspires Photographer Leann Shamash

The Newton artist introduces a new way to read the Purim story in “Feasts, Fasts, Fakeries: The Scroll of Esther Through a Photographic Lens.”

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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2/23/2022 Top Pick

Telling the Purim Story Through Clay

Local artist Rachel Hammerman talks about her latest project depicting scenes from the Megillah.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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2/16/2021 Top Pick

New Memoir Captures the Spirit of Purim and the American Dream

“Concealed” by Esther Amini portrays the Jewish American story of an immigrant family.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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3/25/2019 Top Pick

Baroque Oratorio’s Fate Overturned by Miraculous Rescue

18th-century Hebrew-language musical dramatization of Purim story was nearly lost to time; now, just ahead of the holiday, a recent production marks its East Coast premiere.

By The Times of Israel

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3/18/2019 Top Pick

Duping for the Sake of Lying

Duped by her ex-fiancé, journalist Abby Ellin turns her heartbreak into a compelling memoir.

By Judy Bolton-FasmanFor JewishBoston

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3/15/2019 Top Pick

The Misadventures of Harry Potter and the Book of Esther

By Ashley JacobsFor JewishBoston

“Esther Denouncing Haman” (1888) by Ernest Normand

3/5/2018 Top Pick

Musical by Former Northeastern Professor to Debut in New York

Just in time for Purim, local playwright Samuel Bernstein has a new musical for Jews and non-Jews alike—if you can make the trip to New York.

By The Boston Globe

Voices From Our Community

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2/28/2023 Top Pick

This Purim, Support Jews Experiencing Food Insecurity

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2/27/2023

Five Purims Are Not Enough

Even though the Mishna outlines five potential dates on which you can celebrate Purim, there are actually six. Time to start checking those walls.

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3/28/2022

Post Purim Reflections

In the Diaspora, Purim won’t find you unless you seek it out.

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3/15/2022 Top Pick

Bills Attacking LGBTQ Rights Are an Assault on Jewish Values & Teens

By Idit Klein & Is PerlmanFor Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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3/11/2020 Top Pick

Thoughts on Coronavirus and Purim

One of the themes of the Purim story is that fate can turn any moment and reality can feel upside down.

By Rabbi Marc BakerFor Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP)

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3/4/2020 Top Pick

A Missing Moses, a Missing God, a Missing Spring

Be patient and use your senses.

By Joey GlickFor Hebrew College

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2/18/2018 Top Pick

Vashti Would Say #MeToo

Our Vashtis are everywhere, battling institutionalized sexism and the systems that protect it.

By Emilia Diamant

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3/7/2017

A Day of Fasting: Ta’anit Esther 2017 for Jews and Allies

Taanit Esther can provide a chance to look back to history, educate ourselves about what is really happening today, and envision a future past this scourge of hate.

By Hilary Marcus

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3/3/2017 Top Pick

What If There Is No Esther?

By Mimi Arbeit and Marc Dones