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On the Web
- Purim Resources from the JRF - FAQ's, Purim humor, and educational material. From the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation Education Department
- Chabad.org's Virtual Purim Megasite - Complete Purim website featuring Purim story, costume contest, games, how-to, Megillah text and commentary, multimedia, kids section, recipes and beginner and advanced study.
- Akhlah: The Festival of Purim - Blessing, purim play and traditions.
- Purim - The Jewish Outreach Institute - The story of Purim, essay on "Why isn't God mentioned in the Purim story?" and Hamantashen recipe.
- Purim - OU.ORG - Basic and advanced topics relating to Purim, its meaning and observance. The most complete information source on Purim on the web, from the Orthodox Union.
- Purim - from About.com - Full purim overview. Prepared by Lisa Katz.
- Purim Articles - Index page with articles about Purim from the Jewish Holiday Consumer Newspaper.
- Akhlah: The Festival of Purim - Features a play, information on traditions, Hebrew vocabulary, recipes and an interactive quiz.
- Purim Articles by Eliezer Segal - Covering a variety of Purim topics.
- The Purim Story for Kids - Tells why Purim is more than just a fun-filled dress-up holiday. From Aish HaTorah.
Wikipedia Articles
- Purim spiel - A Purim Spiel, or Purimshpil, meaning a Purim play—shpil means 'game' or '(stage) play' in Yiddish. (See also [Purim Spiel is usually a comic] [[dramatization, as a traditional type of Jewish play, or informal theatrical production, with participants, usually children, wearing costumes that depict the characters in the story in the Book of Esther, ...
- Purim Torah - Purim Torah is a term used to describe humorous and satirical writings customarily read on the Jewish holiday of Purim.
- Purim - Purim (Hebrew: פורים Pûrîm "lots", from Akkadian pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance from Haman's plot to annihilate all the Jews of the Persian Empire, who had survived the Babylonian captivity, after Persia had conquered Babylonia who in turn had destroyed the First ...
- Flora Purim - Flora Purim (born in March 6 1942 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian jazz singer known mainly for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever.
- Fast of Esther - The Fast of Esther (Ta'anit Ester, Hebrew תענית אסתר) is a minor Jewish fast from dawn until dusk on Purim eve, commemorating the three day fast observed by the Jewish people in the story of Purim. This fast was accepted by the Jews for all future generations, as it is stated in the Book of Esther: They had established for themselves and their descendants the matters of the fasts and their cry.