Today on Jewcy: An original poem about the transition from Purim to Passover

Today on Jewcy: Elephants! Alexander! Assassinations!

Today on Jewcy: When can you officially break out the latkes and dreidels?

Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’ gets the Shushan treatment… twice

Examining the ethics of the Purim story

Dressing in costume for the holiday shouldn’t involve cultural appropriation

Schools will still close for holidays, but school calendars won’t name them

We ask the experts about the High Holiday season’s least-understood festival

The festive holiday now overshadows Shemini Atzeret, which has biblical roots

Fancy versions of the Four Species go for more than $100

The actress also enjoys challah, french fries, and gardens

From hamantashen to designer costumes to newfangled groggers—anything and everything you might need to better enjoy the Festival of Lots

The Purim tradition of drowning out Haman’s name with noise dates back to medieval times. But in our increasingly cacophonous lives, an illustrator wonders: Does the grogger need to be reinvented?

Everything you ever wanted to know about the story of Esther

Vanessa Ochs studies “bark mitzvahs” and other modern inventions