Costumes, painted faces, noisemakers, and good-natured fun: This is Purim, a Jewish spring festival remembering a 3,000-year-old deliverance from national annihilation. Remarkably, in the year 2005, Purim fell at the same time as the Christian holiday of deliverance, the observance of Easter. "Two Holidays of Deliverance: Purim and Easter" on this Day of Discovery.