A Jewish cultural center in the Bronx was vandalized on Halloween night, police said. Neighbors first spotted the black and purple paint stained on the front and side of the Sholem Aleichem ...

Purim came to be known as the “Jewish Halloween” as many will dress up in costume for Purim, to “mask” their true identity, a symbol of one of Purim’s key themes as Queen Esther hid her ...

Queen Esther happened to be Jewish and hid this in order to save her people. This was considered a huge act of bravery. Purim came to be known as the “Jewish Halloween” as many will dress up in ...

Poles began to celebrate Halloween after the fall of communism in 1989, but some worry that the foreign cultural import could eventual dilute the tradition of All Saints' Day.

Jewish children in Demnate, Morocco, participate in an Alliance Israélite Universelle Purim program in 1955 (AIU/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain) My late maternal grandmother, Iran (yes, that was ...

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Explore a selection items in the Smithsonian's collections that reflect the Jewish American experience as well as the significant role Jewish Americans and those ...

A man arrested for alleged weapons violations on Halloween had a list of targets that included a U.S. congressman and locations he associated with Jewish and Black people, prosecutors allege.