Those adjustments marked some of the many ways that Purim, a generally whimsical Jewish holiday that celebrates an ancient victory over a threatened genocide, took a different shape this year ...

UTRECHT, Netherlands (JTA) — To the dozens of revelers of this city’s main Purim party, a Jewish grandmother who cooks the event’s annual Persia-themed holiday feast is a rare communal asset.

Keep in mind that the Jewish bookshelf at the time had many ... mandated its public reading every year both on the night of Purim and the next morning? I THINK the book serves as a final message ...