JERUSALEM — Welcoming children for a Purim celebration this week, the security guards at the official home of Israel’s president drew laughs when they asked a routine security question: Was there any metal in the children’s costumes? These weren’t typical visitors. The children wore a costume designed around their mobility device – wheelchairs and walkers […]
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An Israeli patient almost lost her vision because she used cosmetic, colored contact lenses to upgrade her costume for Purim by “changing” the color of her iris. These lenses are often presented as fashion accessories on social media, persuading many consumers, mostly young people, to purchase them. But ophthalmologists warn against using them, explaining that […]
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The Talmud in tractate Ta’anit tells us that our happiness increases when the month of Adar begins. Until when? The Talmud tells us that this lasts until the end of the following Hebrew month, Nissan. It is therefore a seasonal phenomenon. As these are two months in which fall the holidays of Purim and Passover, […]
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Although the tendency among ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews, including teachers, rabbis, parents, and institutions, to present boys with cigarettes on the Purim holiday and their bar mitzvah has lessened, the deadly practice still continues. The practice is meant to show the boys that “they have become a man” or to do unaccustomed things on the holiday. […]
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