A celebration of Purim

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KleinLife, 10100 Jamison Ave., held a Purim celebration with a lunch with hamantaschen, a tri-corned fruit-filled pastry symbolic of the holiday, festive ethnic music and vocals by Ken Ulansey and Phyllis Chapell, costumes, beads and gragger giveaways.

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Purim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates saving the Jewish people from Haman, a Persian empire official who was planning to kill all the Jews as recounted in the biblical Book of Esther. ••

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