1. What is the name of the holiday?
Answer: The name of the holiday is purim.
2. When will the holiday be celebrated in 2011? Answer:Purim in 2011 will start on Sunday, the 20th of March and will continue for 2 days until Monday, the 21st of March. http://www.when-is.com/purim-2011.asp
3. Who celebrates this holiday? (Countries, religious groups, ethnic groups)
Answer:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim The Jewish people celebrates this holiday. It is celebrate with the hebrew calendar.
4. Why is this holiday celebrated? What is the significance of this holiday?
Answer: This holiday is celebrated because festivalthat commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people living throughout the ancient Persian Empire.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim
5. How is this holiday celebrated? Include any rituals, food, costumes, dance or music associated with this holiday.http://www.answers.com/topic/how-is-purim-celebrated
Answer: This holiday is celebrated by hearing the megillah scroll of the Book of Esther read in the evening and morning. Send gifts to people and two kind of food. You give alams to to kind of homeless people. You have a festival meal.
6. What websites were used in answering these questions? (Copy and paste the web addresses of each website.)
Answer :http://www.answers.com/topic/how-is-purim-celebrated
http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/purim/customs.html
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