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Mashed Potato Kugel with Eggplant and Mushrooms. (Photo/Faith Kramer)
Posted inPassover

A Passover menu with Turkish Jewish influences

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer March 12, 2021
A Covid-19 restriction sign hangs outside of an H-E-B supermarket in Austin, Texas, March 3, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Montinique Monroe/-etty Images)
Posted inPassover

One Dallas kosher grocer removed the mask requirement. Then came the backlash.

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 9, 2021
School buses in Boston lined up on the first day of school in 2014. (Photo/JTA-David L Ryan-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inRosh Hashanah

Where Rosh Hashanah falls on the first day of school, districts wrestle with whether to change their plans

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 8, 2021
Moses Prince of Egypt Exodus
Posted inHolidays

Passover and the California ethnic studies curriculum

Rabbi Beth SingerRabbi Jonathan Singer by Rabbi Beth Singer and Rabbi Jonathan Singer March 5, 2021
The "Haggadeck," a deck of cards that's also a Passover haggadah, comes in a small drawstring bag. Seder plate not included. (Photo/Courtesy Taya Mâ Shere)
Posted inPassover

Want a haggadah with poetry? Or maybe you’d rather say, ‘Deal me in.’ 

David A.M. Wilensky
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J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky March 4, 2021March 4, 2021
A Purim parade in Tel Aviv, Feb. 26, 2021. Celebrations took place during the day because the government imposed a curfew to prevent the spread of Covid-19. (Photo/JTA-Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)
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Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world

by JTA February 28, 2021
(Illustration/JTA-Rebecca Kerzner)
Posted inReligion

For this second pandemic Purim, let’s focus on giving tzedakah

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg and JTA February 22, 2021
Kiki Lipsett as Esther in the 2019 "Irreverently Yours, The Shushan Queens" Purim spiel at the Starline Social Club in Oakland. (Photo/Courtesy Kiki Lipsett)
Posted inOpinion

Purim reminds us how to heal hearts through laughter

by J. Editorial Board February 18, 2021
Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
Posted inColumns

Month of Adar: Milk the magic for all it’s worth

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 16, 2021
Haman's Fingers (Photo/Faith Kramer)
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Purim phyllo pastry trades in Haman’s hat for ‘Haman’s Fingers’

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer February 15, 2021

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