Religious Purim
Purim is the year's only day when Orthodox Jews let themselves do this.
Cross dress
In Jewish mysticism, Purim is most compared to this somewhat similar sounding holiday.
Yom Kippur
In early Christianity, the Book of Esther was amended to add this character.
God
The story of Purim happens in what today is this country.
Iran
Haman was hanged on the gallows he meant for this person.
Mordekhai
God appeared in the Jewish Book of Esther this many times.
Zero
Midrash holds that this archangel caused Haman to fall down and look up Esther's dress.
Michael
Biblicists link the name Mordekhai with this Babylonian head-honcho deity.
Marduk
This ancient cradle of democracy had a Purim-like festival, with drunken spoofs of the powerful.
Greece
Misogynist Ahashverosh ended up doing a woman's bidding, but only after exiling her first.
Vashti
When people give mishloah manot, they give this.
Baskets of food.
This is why some people drink to excess on Purim.
So they can't tell good from evil (ad lo yada)
We make noise to blot out Haman's name because his ancestors are these people.
Amalekites
In the 1930s, European rabbis called this person the world's next Haman.
Hitler
The darkest day Haman intended instead culminated in this allegory for God.
Light
This saddest Bible book's musical tune mixes into the Book of Esther with news that Jews will be killed.
Lamentations
Some mystics say that Purim's "lots" perverted this Biblical person's breastplate stones.
Aaron / High Priest
In 1994, this animated cartoon became the first U.S. TV series to depict part of the Esther story.
Scooby Doo
The world's largest Purim parade happens in this city.
Tel Aviv
This many Jews might have survived had Haman's plot fully succeeded in Ahashverosh's realm.
Zero
Haman was hanged on this Jewish holiday.
Passover
Haman's gallows were this many cubits high, or the number of days between Passover and Shavuot.
50
In the Greek rendition of the Book of Esther, Haman came from this arch-enemy country.
Macedonia
Antisemitic propaganda uses Purim as "proof" of Jewish evil because, in the Book of Esther, Jews do this.
Engage in violence
Mordekhai, condemned to death, instead emerged wearing a royal robe of these national colors of Israel.
Blue and white