Purim party

Rabbi Joshua Heller, below, reads from the Megilla as the Downtown Synagogue celebrated Purim last Sunday with a costume party at P.S. 234. The holiday commemorates the time when Esther saved the Jews from Haman and King Achasverosh of Persia. Left, Rema Hort, 3, came as Cinderella. Joanna Fisch, 2, playing Pooh, bottom left, tried to catch a tiger by the tail, namely, Eitan Caggia, 2.