613.0rg
Audio files - stories, shiurim, jokes, megillah reading
http://www.613.org/purim.html
Eliezer Segal
History of parody in Jewish tradition
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/880219_Purim_Parody.html
Virtual Bet Midrash
Shiurim from Har Etzion Yeshiva
http://freefind.com/servlet/freefind?id=5304605&pageid=r&query=Purim&mode=Match+ANY.
The Jewish Magazine
Article on meaning of Purim, and on customs
http://www.jewishmag.com/
Virtual Jerusalem Purim Page now available on
http://209.58.241.78/vjholidays/purim/themes.htm
JewFAQ: Introductory background, additional reference
files.
http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday9.htm
Ohr Somayach: Background story, laws, deeper thoughts,
humor, audio - dozens of files -
http://www.ohr.org.il/special/purim/
OU: Background, laws, messages, audio, rejoicing,
recipes
http://www.ou.org/chagim/purim/
Torah Org: A wealth of themes discussed
http://www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/purim/
Diaspora Yeshiva: Background, laws, commentary, cyber
Purim play, stories, games, recipes
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/purim/index.htm
Ahavat Israel: Short background file
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/torat/purim.html
Chabad: Play, read, listen, watch and do good deeds
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http://www.his.com/~chabad/purim/
now www.virtualpurim.org with www.chabad.org
Chabad: Facts, Saga, food, online events
http://www.purim.com/
613: Jokes as well as advanced shiurim, dozens of
audio files
http://www.613.org/purim.html
WUJS: Purim background, sources; suggested activities
for Rosh Chodesh Adar - Women's issues
http://www.wujs.org.il/activist/learning/festivals/purim/index.shtml

Online Megillah summary in three files, under "3. Megillah and
Mitzvot" and is approximate to the chapters in the Megillah.
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/festivls/purim/index.html
Purim Story-Telling Exhibition, kindly donated to the website by the
Polders Jewish community in Holland
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/festivls/purim/polders.html
A really beautifully illustrated story (animation), strictly by chapter
http://www.kehilasmy.org/holidays/purim/MegilaE.cfm
How to plan a story-telling programme
http://www.bjesf.org/MAIN/ECE_Purim/TellingAStory.html
and then links to another site, where each chapter is given in really
tidy translation-cum-summary, with sub-headings, all user- friendly
http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/purim/esther1.html
A different kind of summary: the protagonists and the action headings,
marked by chapter and verses
http://www.torahlearningcenter.com/jhq/question22.html
The sources on another site help with this approach http://www.aishdas.org/webshas/torah/bichtav/tanach/purim.htm
For kids and totally run-on, but the quiz at the end is really neat
http://www.aish.com/holidays/purim/the_purim_story.asp
An 11 year old retells the Purim story, two parts, audio http://www.biblicalholidays.com/purim_audio.htm
Very abridged, but the preceeding file (story.htm) allows you to download
a gragger! http://www.holidays.net/purim/story2.htm
This is not for kids, but it is a clever perspective on the Purim
story
http://www.ohr.org.il/yhiy/article.php/1483
Access the audio lecture for students from this page, it is chapter
by chapter and analytical http://www.largeprintreviews.com/TJEpurimstory.html

http://www.aish.com/holidays/purim/songs.asp
http://www.j.co.il/songs/songs.asp?id=012
[or go to www.j.co.il>Songbook
Categories> Holidays-Purim ]
Six Purim songs with transliterated Hebrew and translation, mp3 audio
files
http://www.bj.org/purim_songs.html
Four traditional and modern songs with animated graphics and midi
files; Russian pages also available; Hebrew and transliteration, no
translation
http://www.kehilasmy.org/holidays/purim/SongsE.cfm
13 traditional and modern songs, Hebrew only
http://www.zooloo.co.il/more/purim/purim_songs.asp
Double index of traditional Hebrew and Yiddish songs in Hebrew with
English translation; downloadable song files in ram; streamed listening
in Real One; full Megillah reading in ram; doc and pdf downloads for
song texts
http://www.ohr.org.il/audio/ra/perlman/pursongs.htm
Piyyutim from different countries, Megillah in streamed audio or mp3
downloads
http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/music/purim/purim.html
Yiddish, English parodies and Hebrew songs (Transliteration or original
text and some ram files)
http://campuscgi.princeton.edu/~klez/zemerl/display.pl?subcategory=Purim