Purim
is the most festive
of Jewish holidays,
a time of fasting,
prizes, noisemakers,
costumes and treats.
The Festival of
Purim commemorates
a major victory
over oppression
and is recounted
[read] in the Megillah,
the scroll of the
story of Esther.
Purim
takes place on the
fourteenth and fifteenth
days of Adar, the
twelfth month of
the Jewish calendar.