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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir holds a grogger during a Megillah reading at his home in Jerusalem on Purim 1991. (Photo/Israel Government Press Office)
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Silence isn’t golden: The power of Purim groggers

Rabbi Dov Greenberg by Rabbi Dov Greenberg March 21, 2024
Abigail Grafton (right) on the day of her 2016 wedding to Shoshana Dembitz (left). (Photo/Lea Delson)
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Abigail Grafton, 83, embodied a minyan’s Aquarian values

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Lila Volkas with a Hamantaschen Spritz mocktail at her studio in Oakland, March 12, 2024. (Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
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Mocktail expert shakes up Purim tradition with a Hamantaschen Spritz

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Apricot hamantaschen from Noe Valley Bakery in San Francisco. (Photo/Courtesy Noe Valley Bakery)
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UPDATED: Where to find Purim treats around the Bay Area

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb March 18, 2024May 23, 2024
Jewish thought leaders are facing down the uncomfortable implications of Chapter Nine of the Book of Esther at a time when the Jewish people are responding to the deadliest attack on them since the Holocaust.(Photo/JTA-Getty)
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How Jews are addressing the megillah’s bloodiest chapter during this wartime Purim

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg March 15, 2024
Indo-Persian Spiced Potato Knishes with curry mustard and zhoug. (Photo/Faith Kramer)
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Hidden Persian spices make these knishes a perfect Purim appetizer

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer March 14, 2024May 23, 2024
A 19th-century painting of Purim partying in Tzfat, Israel (Photo/Wikimedia)
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Find an excuse to feel some collective Jewish joy

Rabbi George Altshuler by Rabbi George Altshuler March 14, 2024March 14, 2024
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Double Adar continues with Double Eclipse season

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