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Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

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“Most of them, however, do not identify as Cochin Jews anymore,” she said. It is unclear when the community stopped creating and burning effigies as part of their Purim celebrations.

The Purim revisionists never fail to mention the crime of Dr. Baruch Goldstein, a Jew who on Purim in 1994 murdered 29 Arabs in prayer in cold blood at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

But with that said, Purim falls on a Thursday and Friday in 2025, so you don't have to keep it low-key because it's nearly the weekend. You can even go all-out with a festive Purim party.