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Latest Purim Items
  • ** FILE ** Triangular-shaped orange-poppy seed hamantashen cookies are a dessert favorite on the holiday of Purim. (Associated Press)

    First LGBT Jewish children's book published

    The lack of a gay-themed, Jewish children's book has finally been remedied with "The Purim Superhero," a story of a young boy whose dilemma over which Purim costume to pick is solved with the help of his two dads.


  • ** FILE ** Triangular-shaped orange-poppy seed hamantashen cookies are a dessert favorite on the holiday of Purim. (Associated Press)

    Eat, drink and be merry on Purim

    Purim has been summed up in this way: They tried to kill us, we won, so let's eat!


  • FACES OF FAITH: Nida Kazmi, 23, a Muslim from Rockville, and her friend Laurence Hyre Leroux, 23, also from Rockville, who says she is secular, attend an interfaith event at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in December. (The Washington Times)

    Interfaith movement gains new strength

    In a world in which sectarian divisions fuel some of the most violent confrontations, the interfaith movement has emerged as a force in American religion like never before.


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