While Purim News Today

During leap years, while we await actual Purim in Second Adar, we have the opportunity to reflect on how the Purim story relates to modern history and our contemporary lives.

Purim’s Lesson on How to Defeat the Enemy: Keep Calm and Carry On A year ago we put on masks for Purim and havent taken them off. Don’t panic. While Purim is normally one of the happiest days on our calendar, this year it will mark a sobering milestone. Purim will essentially mark a full year of living through a pandemic that has radically changed our lives. While we are beyond grateful for the progress with treatments and vaccinations, the return to some sense of normalcy doesn’t seem im...