Purim is the most cheerful holiday on the Jewish calendar. Every year Israelis come up with clever, bold and outrageous costumes, many of them taking aim at the country’s political and public dramas of the moment, and events and parties usually take place throughout the week. Yet Purim this year was overshadowed by the U.S.-Israel […]
Purim in Israel was canceled because of the Iran war. Or was it?
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