Purim Calendar

WEDNESDAY/MARCH 3

• Hamantaschen baking - 6:30 p.m., VOSJCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale. JCC Singles. For single parents with their children. $15 nonmembers. 480-634-4944, ext. 1205.
  
  SATURDAY/MARCH 6
  
• Bring-your-own dairy picnic dinner, Purim service, presentation by elementary school students, Megillah reading and Broadway Purim spiel - 7 p.m., Temple Chai.
  
• Family celebration, Megillah reading - 7 p.m., 8:30 p.m., Har Zion Congre-gation.
  
• Family program for children ages 6 and under and their families - 5:30 p.m., Temple Chai.
  
• Megillah reading - 7 p.m., Beth El Congregation.
  
• Megillah reading, carnival - 8 p.m., Chabad of Arizona.
  
• Megillah reading for college students - 7:30 p.m., Hillel at ASU.
  
• Megillah reading followed by Purim spiel, a romantic comedy "The Nutcracker, Sweet" written by Rabbi B. Charles Herring - 7 p.m., Temple Kol Ami.
  
• Megillah reading followed by a Mexican fiesta - 7:30 p.m. Young Israel of Phoenix.
  
• "Motown Megillah" - 7 p.m., Temple Beth Sholom.
  
• Purimania, kosher Chinese buffet dinner, multimedia Megillah reading, masquerade, Israeli Dance Group - 8 p.m., Hampton Inn, 8408 W. Paradise Lane, Peoria. Chabad of the West Valley.
  
• Sephardic Megillah reading - 7:30 p.m., Sephardic Community of Arizona.
  
• Sephardic-style Purim - 7:30 p.m., Scottsdale Sepharadic Synagogue. $15 adults, $10 children.
  
• Traditional Megillah reading -8 p.m., Temple Beth Sholom.
  
  SUNDAY/MARCH 7
  
• Concert - 4:30 p.m., Beth Emeth Congregation. $18.
  
• East Valley community carnival - noon-4 p.m. at Temple Beth Sholom. Also hosted by Tri-City Jewish Community Center and Temple Emanuel.
  
• Italian Purim seudah (meal) and carnival - 4 p.m., Young Israel of Phoenix. $10 adults, $7 children, $40 family.
  
• Megillah reading- 8:30 a.m., Chabad of Arizona.
  
• Megillah reading - 9 a.m., Har Zion Congregation.
  
• Megillah reading, brunch, games - 10:30 a.m., Temple Beth Emeth of Scottsdale. $5.
  
• Purim Peking - 4:30 p.m., Cochise Elementary School. Chabad of Scottsdale. Chinese buffet dinner, crafts, music. $20 adults, $13 children.
  
• Purim carnival - 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Beth El Congregation.
  
• Purim carnival - noon-4 p.m., Har Zion Men's Club at Har Zion Congregation.
  
• Purim feast - 5 p.m., Chabad of Arizona.
  
• Purim party - 1 p.m., Phoenix Community Kollel at a private home in Phoenix. Suggested donation: $10 adult, $36 family.