Workmen's Circle
Purim is Coming; Help Celebrate This Silly, Serious Holiday. Update
Purim, the Feast of Lots, the silliest of Jewish holidays is coming Thursday & Friday March 20th & 21st . It’s a raucous, drunken party holiday with costumes and funny plays. You don’t have to be Jewish to celebrate it. For non-observant people, here’s how.
Update? How can there be an update on a holiday thousands of years old? It's not. It's about the Purim party this Saturday far after the jump.
Purim celebrates a fabled victory of Jews over their enemies in Persia thousands of years ago and follows the time honored tradition: They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s Eat. For the full story, people read the whole Megillah – the scroll in which the Biblical Book of Esther is written. This is not really much a religious holiday. God appears not at all in the story which is an entirely human tale of struggle.
A bare-bones plot summary via Wikipedia:
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