This year Purim occurs
          on March 21, 2008
            14 Adar 5768  
Purim is the only time when it's a mitzva to make noise!   It is the celebration of a great victory and our survival as a Jewish people.
 Purim is a great holiday of fun food and festivity for everyone.

 

About Purim   Listen to a Purim play Ecards Links
Customs Purim recipes Pur-Purim the source
Mishloach Manot The four Mitzvot Games
Purim in other countries Share with us Songs
Curious Facts  Gifts to the poor Pictures

 

   

In the following link you will read about Purim
   Click here 		 
Who are the main heroes of Purim?
Purim Customs   
Which Purim Custom do you like best? Click here. To learn more click here. 
 		  
Mishloach Manot          
One of the customs of Purim is to send  "Gifts" (Mishloach Manot). 
What are you going to put in your Mishloach Manot?

 Purim in other countries

Learn how Purim is celebrated in different countries around the world.
Choose one county and click on it.   

Yemen        Tunisia        Bukhara, Russia       Afghanistan   

Write a short fact sheet on the way Purim is celebrated in the country you chose.
Curious Facts About Purim 
Read the Curious facts about Purim .
Write about one fact that surprised you !!
Listen to a Purim play      
Click here

Purim play from Akhlah.com
Pairwork:choose one scene and play it for your class.
Purim Tasty Treats  
Mimi's Cyber Kitchen cyber-kitchen.com
jewishfood-list.com Jewish Agency
Jewish-food.org Recipes - Chabad

The Four Mitzvot     
Read about the four mitzvot click here. 
What are the four mitzvot?

Purim Memories   
What is your Purim happiest memory?
What does Purim mean to you?
Write in the

Gifts To The Poor 
In the following links you will read about giving gifts to the poor 

Give gifts to the needy Gifts to the poor
Purim Gifts Charity - Aish HaTorah


To how many people should you at least give tzedaka on Purim?
to at least one person
 to at least two people
 to at least three people

Check your answers

What should you give as tzedaka?  
money
food
money or food
 Check your answers

You should give tzedaka on Purim to 
 a charity
the poor himself
the synagogue
Check your answers

  PUR-PURIM- What does it mean? (Advanced level)

Read about the meaning of the word Purim. Click here. 
What does the word "Pur" mean?

  

What is the earliest meaning of the word "pur"?

What is the origin of the word ostracism?

Why did Haman choose to draw lots?

Send a Purim Ecard  
123greetings.com
 American Greetings
care2.com
cyber-kitchen.com
cards.jhom

 

Purim Games

     
Ualberta Online Quiz
Torahtots (to print)
Chabad Games
 		 Purim Mystery
Online Wordsearch
Online Word Scramble
      Another Word Scramble
Only Numbers Game (to print)		 Print and connect the dots
 

 

Purim Songs 
www.aish.com 
 The J Site - Purim songs 
 Chabad - Purim songs  		    

 Purim pictures

Look at the following pictures of Purim.
To move from picture to picture click on the word next (under the picture).
Click here.
Which picture did you like best? Explain.

Name: 
Class:   
School:

For more information about Purim
 

Etni-Purim

Chabad Online

Aish-Purim

Torah.org

Ualberta.ca

www.jr.co.il

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Last Updated 11/03/08