Care home residents celebrate Purim in style (From Times Series)
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Jewish Care residents celebrate Purim in style
5:28pm Monday 25th February 2013 in News
By Natalie O'Neill
Irene Lowy, a resident at Jewish Care's Rubens House, Joan Bayes a volunteer at Rubens House and Michael Reins a resident at the care home
Care home residents donned their best fancy dress outfits as they celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim.
People living at Jewish Care’s Rubens House in North Finchley joined members of the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre in Hendon for a fun-filled party in honour of the holiday.
Purim commemorates a story in the Torah's Book of Esther when Jews living in ancient Persia were saved from extermination in the wake of a plot by a Persian noble called Haman.
This year, Purim was celebrated from Saturday evening to Sunday evening.
