Evergreen

On Purim, we get a flavor of a redeemed world — and it is intoxicating.

Transferred intent.

The snake exception.

Immediate culpability.

May-December.

Obsession.

Traditional blessings recited before and after reading the Scroll of Esther.

More than two millennia ago, it was not the action of one man that changed the course of Jewish history, but rather his inaction.

Purim greetings in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino.

Embalming contravenes several core Jewish principles around death, but there are rare cases in which it is permitted.