A woman wears masks in the colors of the Ukrainian flag as Romania’s Jewish community celebrates Purim in the Coral Temple synagogue in Bucharest, Romania. Photo, right, Rabbi Sholom Krinsky reads the Torah at a shul in Vilnius, Lithuania. Purim, which commemorates the salvation of the Jews in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Bible’s Book of Esther, prompted prayers for peace in the Ukraine, now beset by Russian troops.

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