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A group of Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for charity try and visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have to wait to get in and they have bouncers on the door. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays. It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity.

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A group of Orthodox Jewish boys in fancy dress collecting for charity try and visit a wealthy man of the area; some houses are so popular they have to wait to get in and they have bouncers on the door. Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays. It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity.