Purim is the time for fun – for eating, drinking, carnivals, plays and gifts of food to friends and the poor. We celebrate it like a Feast of Fools, when we are permitted to masquerade in guises.
ESTHER ENTERS what was essentially a massive beauty contest and wins: A beauty pageant in Helsingborg, Sweden, 1955(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)ByDVORA WAYSMAN
