{"id":131408,"date":"2026-03-06T16:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:33:10","slug":"community-purim-carnival-brings-holiday-joy-to-lehigh-valley-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131408\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Purim Carnival brings holiday joy to Lehigh Valley \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published March 06. 2026 10:29AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Purim is a joyous holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people of ancient Persia from near destruction at the hands of Haman, an adviser to King Ahasuerus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The story, told in the Scroll of Esther, recounts how the Jews were saved through the courage of Esther, a Jewish woman chosen to be queen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">In recognition of her bravery and pivotal role, the Purim story is forever linked to her name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">A beloved Purim tradition is dressing in costume, a custom believed to date back to medieval Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The JCC of the Lehigh Valley hosted a Community Purim Festival 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 1 at 702 N. 22nd St., Allentown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The holiday itself began at sundown March 2 and concluded at sundown March 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Families enjoyed games, crafts, prizes, activities and a festive costume parade.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HIRSCH\u201cThree Blind Mice\u201d \u2013 Mom Marlee Meyerson holding Sophia, with Danielle and Eliana in front dress in costume for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett Gorchev participates in \u201cPersian Putt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abey Litvak is dressed as a little chick from Shomron Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Onora Conboy looks over prizes with Rabbi Shoshanah Tornberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published March 06. 2026 10:29AM Purim is a joyous holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-131408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}