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Spring has almost sprung...and Purim is present!

by Shoshana Flax
Mar 06, 2023 | Filed in Blogs


Hamantaschen with apricot, raspberry, cookie butter, Nutella, and arequipe fillings. Photo courtesy of Shoshana Flax.

Purim begins tonight!

Admittedly, Jewish holidays are plentiful. In case you find it hard to keep track, here’s a handy guide to signs that Purim is coming:

  • Happiness. Seriously. Being happy in the month of Adar, when Purim comes, is an Official Thing.
  • Costumes.
  • Hamantaschen.
  • Gifts of food and charity.
  • Megillah reading, featuring noisemakers making noise when villain Haman’s name is read.
  • Repetitions of the old chestnut, “they tried to kill us; we won; let’s eat!”
  • Stress Excitement! about the preparation-intense next holiday, Passover.
  • Book recommendations (including our Holidays--Purim Guide/Reviews Database tag and on The Sydney Taylor Shmooze this past week)!

Chag sameach, and may your hamantaschen-filling experiments succeed.

Shoshana Flax

Shoshana Flax, associate editor of The Horn Book, Inc., is a former bookseller and holds an MFA in writing for children from Simmons University. She has served on the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and Sydney Taylor Book Award committees.

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