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Purim is a one-day festival that honors the Jews' salvation from near destruction in Persia, or ancient Iran, nearly 2,400 ...

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Purim is widely depicted as the most joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits and noisemakers.

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(JTA) — In Jewish time, history often has a way of rhyming with the calendar. So when Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Shabbat before Purim — the holiday ...