It is also traditional to eat fruits and nuts for Tu B'Shevat to remind us of all of the gifts we receive from trees throughout the year. Make a Fruit and nut box as a service project. Send a Tu B'Shevat Card to someone nice. Purim Purim , festival of lots, begins at sunset March 8, 2001. Traditionally, Jews exchanged presents at Purim, not Hanukkah.
Some families still observe the custom of exchanging gift baskets, mostly filled with edible treats.
Send a Purim Card to someone nice. Passover Passover, an eight-day holiday, celebrates the story of the Exodus and began at sundown, April 7, 2001. Grasshoppers and frogs were two of the ten plagues of Egypt. Passover begins the counting of the Omer to harvest and Shavuot. If you like the Simpsons, you may enjoy the counting of the Homer .