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Rabbi Menachem Youlus reads an ancient scroll atthe Jewish Bookstore of Greater Washington,which recovers and restores Hebrew texts.

The Kosher Pastry Oven bakes

hamantaschen filled with sticky jam.

Though mainly eaten at Passover, matzo can alwaysbe found on the shelves at Shaul’s Kosher Market.

Israeli Accents stocks Purim noisemakers called

graggers, which cost from 68 cents to $300.

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Fill your pantry with Israeli wine, matzo ballsoup and other sundries from KosherMart,the region’s largest Jewish supermarket.

Not just for Sunday: Nosh on Jewishbialys and bagels most days of theweek at Goldberg’s New York Bagels.

For other Middle Eastern flavors, trythe shawarma or falafel from Max’sKosher Cafe and Marketplace.

Elli-Chai’s One-Stop Judaica Shopsells Purim costumes for children, aswell as Purim books and music.

On Thursday, Purim revelers willparty on at the circus-themedCarnival Chabad of Silver Spring.

The challah from Shalom Strictly KosherMarket works well as sandwich bread, or youcan eat the eggy loaf straight out of the bag.

Hold the pepperoniat Ben YehudaCafe and Pizzeria.The kosher eaterydoesn’t serve meat.

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RoadTrip Celebrate Purim in Montgomery County

WHERE: Silver Spring and Rockville.

WHY: A Purim party, noisemakers and rescued scrolls.

HOW FAR: About seven miles from start to finish.

The queen is coming to Montgomery County’s Little Israel. The royalty in question is Esther, a legend in Jewish lore and a cause celebre. Around 350

B.C., a government official named Haman set out to rid the Persian kingdom of its Jewishinhabitants. However, Queen Esther revealed herself as a Jew to her husband, the king,

thereby saving her people. To celebrate this heroic feat, Jews hold Purim festivals that include candy swapping, theatrical

retellings of the story and children dressed as their favorite characters from the story. Home to nearly half the Jews in the Washington area, Montgomery County is an ideal place to

celebrate Purim, which starts at sunset Thursday and runs through Saturday. The county’s denseJewish population dates to World War II, when Jews came to the District to work for the govern-ment and eventually spread to the suburbs. They built kosher restaurants and markets, Jewish nov-elty stores and, of course, a New York bagel shop.

Chabad of Silver Spring, a Jewish community center, will host one of the area’s largest Purim fes-tivals Thursday. The event will feature jugglers, clowns, kosher hot dogs, hamantaschen (tradition-al Purim pastries) — and many queens for the day.

— Ben Chapman

Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addressesand hours of operation (be sure to check before you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail

roadtrip@washpost.com.

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The accomplished author (“Positively 4th Street”) turns a historian’s eye on the cultural witch hunts that derailed America’s thriving comic-book industry in the 1950s.

Green is a ridiculously gifted lyricist with Beck’s knack for random word association and an ear for the absurd.

Plus, there’s a song about a pony.

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The disc’s “zombies are people too!” alternate

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For a game that packs such a wallop, the fact that the characters can’t move in three dimensions stands out as a fl aw.

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Sure, you’re provided more than 40 arenas to brawl in

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The Montreal artist’s signa-ture semi-autobiographical stand-in goes on vacation with his pregnant wife and in-laws, and impending fatherhood triggers memories of his youth.

This high-wattage, frequently moving two-disc set is a companion piece to the acclaimed documentary about disabled Iraq war vet

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In this adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, the sole survivor (Will Smith) of a viral outbreak that turns people into fl esh-eating zombies struggles to fi nd a cure.

Singer-songwriter Green is a sometime member of the anti-folk outfi t the Moldy Peaches, now semi-stratospheric stars thanks to the “Juno” soundtrack (he’s the guy singingon “Anyone Else But You”).

Sixes & Sevens Adam Green Rough Trade $14.98

The author presents short stories about his real hometown “holler,” Knockemstiff, Ohio, featuring a hillbilly cast of speed freaks, incestuous siblings and sexual deviants.

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“Like Judas of old / You lie and deceive / A world war can be won / You want me to believe”

— Pearl Jam’s live version of Dylan’s “Masters of War”

“How do you all know this song? I’ve never heard this song before!”

— Hunky lawyer Robert (Patrick Dempsey) is surprised when all of Central Park bursts into a musical number

“Day one thousand and one. We came in close contact with a hive today. Blood tests confi rmthat I remain immune to both the airborne and contact strains.”

— Neville (Smith) fi nds time off fromblasting the undead to take notes

The small-town book burnings and congressional hysteria that accompanied the “scare” make for a fascinating study; ditto the evocative photos (of which the book could have used more).

You and three friends can make Super Mario team up with Sonic the Hedgehog to duke it out with Donkey Kong and Pikachu — and the permutations are seemingly endless.

Disney’s attempt to send up its own conventions endsup splashing around in time-

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The slow-going fi rst half recalls the kind of dense textbook prose that lulls you to sleep when you’redesperately trying to cram for the following day’s exam.

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In an animated fairy-tale universe, an evil queen (Susan Sarandon) disrupts her stepson’s romance with a princess (Amy Adams, right) by sending her into the real world.

The shots of a weedy, empty, post-apocalyptic Manhattan where deer and lions roam

the streets are terrifi cally spooky.

Adams is gung-ho and guileless, even though her

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AMY ADAMS BY BARRY WETCHER — WALT DISNEY

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