Tag: Purim

Purim Party at Gloucester's Temple Ahavat Achim, March 20, 2019. (Greg Cook)

Our Photos Greg CookMarch 22, 2019 0

In Gloucester, Celebrating Purim With Costumes, Stories And Beer: ‘It Is A Mitzvah’

As is traditional, the families gathered at Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim for their annual celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim on Wednesday evening were costumed as superheroes and princesses,…Continue Reading →

Purim shpil performed at Gragger!5779 at SEIU 32BJ Meeting Hall in Boston, March 16, 2019. (Greg Cook)

Our Photos Greg CookMarch 19, 2019 0

Gragger Retells The Jewish Purim Tale As A Radical, Queer Burlesque

Gragger—Boston Workmen’s Circle’s annual, grown-up “evening of gender-bending, ancestral-healing, world-transforming Purim festivities”—is named for the clacker or rattle traditionally used to blot out the villain’s name in the ancient Jewish…Continue Reading →