Shushan Purim

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Purim 2023

Purim celebrated in Israel with all the usual fanfare

March 7, 2023

The holiday started after sundown on Monday and continues through Tuesday evening, with Shushan Purim lasting through Wednesday.

Jews, some of them new immigrants, read the Megillat Esther (the Scroll of Esther) during the Jewish holiday of Purim in Katzrin in northern Israel on March 7, 2023. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

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Purim 2023

How Jews made the holiday of Purim personal

Sarah OginceMarch 7, 2023

“It is a story about the necessity of Jewish power as a form of group protection—of lobbying, rallying, activism and sticking one’s neck out for one’s fellow Jew,” says Wendy Zierler, a rabbi and a professor of modern Jewish literature and feminist studies at Hebrew Union College‒Jewish Institute of Religion.

“Megillat Hitler” rolled together with a Megillat Esther (Esther Scroll), Casablanca, Morocco, 1944. Credit: Yad Vashem Artifact Collection, Donated by Alberto Corcos, Herzliya, Israel.

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