Purim starts tonight –
The festival of Purim is celebrated every year on the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar (late winter/early spring). It commemorates the salvation of the Jewish people in ancient Persia from Haman’s plot “to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, young and old, infants and women, in a single day.”
It’s sometimes referred to as the Jewish Mardi Gras or Halloween.
(I still like the Poppy seed Hamantashen more than the fruit filled ones – really, who but old people would put prunes in a dessert.)
Happy Purim to all, and to all a good…wait, wrong holiday.
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