The moment that the Purim ads start appearing in the religious magazines, I begin to hyperventilate: How to design the perfect cellophane-wrapped gift packages of treats, the traditional mishloach ...

It is a universal truth that no one likes getting raisins in their Purim basket. And yet the raisins persist. I’ve come to believe that the same tiny red one-ounce box has been making the rounds for ...

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This year, Purim starts the evening of March 23. One way to get ready is to create and send mishloach manot, also known as a Purim basket. These gifts, sent to family and friends, are meant to ensure ...

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ens of thousands of lavish mishloach manot (food packages traditionally given on Purim) have recently been dispatched from vast warehouses in the heart of Ukraine to Jewish communities throughout the ...

Seventy students of the Naveh Yeshiva in Jerusalem are helping a Jerusalem social service organization to distribute “Purim portions” (mishloach manot) to elderly Jerusalemites. The project was ...

It’s early Wenesday morning, erev Purim, and my dining room table is not to be seen. That’s because of the piles and piles of Mishloach Manot that I’ve been preparing obsessively for the past few days ...

The families of the hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas arrived at the Knesset on Wednesday with 120 mishloach manot (traditional Purim food gifts) wrapped in yellow ribbons, which they distributed ...

"The Purim holiday is the most unhealthy holiday out of all the holidays," warned the nutritionist. "It's true that the sufganiyot of Hanukkah are fried in low quality oil in which harmful materials ...