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Join us for the vibrant Allison Senser Purim Festival on Sunday, March 9, 2025! Celebrate this joyous holiday with an afternoon filled with fun, festivities, and community spirit for all ages.
Celebrate Purim with an afternoon packed with family-friendly fun and activities for everyone! Come in your best costume and get ready for an exciting day filled with colorful balloon animals, creative face painting, and classic carnival games. Capture the memories at our photo booth, complete with fun props to make your snapshots unforgettable!
Drinks, snacks, and Hamantaschen will be provided. Get your tickets below and/or donate to the community effort to make this a Purim to remember!
Allison Senser’s Purim celebration is now in its 7th year, celebrating Allison’s life, her deep connection to the community, and her love of the Purim holiday. Her dad, Neil Goldberg, began the tradition first as an Oneg, then produced into a carnival and continued during the pandemic as a Mishloach Manot gift to the community. Neil continues to play a central role in producing the 2025 Allison Senser Community Purim Festival, honoring Allison’s memory with this cherished tradition.
Allison Bree Goldberg was born December 17, 1980 in North Miami, Florida. As a child, Purim was one of her favorite Jewish Holidays and she baked hamantaschen every year using her family’s recipe and secret ingredients handed down through 6 generations. Sharing the recipe of hamantaschen and delivering Mishloach Manot (a gift that one sends to another on Purim) was a family tradition. When Ali met Andy Senser, she moved from New York to Columbus, Ohio in 2007. Together they continued celebrating all the Jewish Holidays and for Purim, Ali baked hamantaschen every year for many to enjoy throughout the Columbus community.
Ali was passionate and supportive of the Jewish Community. Besides her temple affiliations, she was involved with the JCC New Albany Parent Committee and was instrumental in successful ECE Fundraising events. She served as an active member of the JCC Board of Trustees and chair of the 2016 Maccabi Fundraising Committee. In recognition of Ali’s dedication and contributions, she was presented the JCC Larry Schaffer Shem Tov Award in 2015.
Through the continued celebration of Purim, Neil Goldberg ensures that Ali’s legacy lives on in a meaningful way—honoring her memory and love for the community she cherished, as well as her family: Andy, Alyssa, Reese, Blake, and Jordyn Senser.
Tickets can be adjusted from a family, adult to a single child. Parking is included.
For families in need of financial assistance, please contact your local organization.
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Have children with accessibility needs? We will accommodate a calm sensory space! Please contact our Director of Community Inclusion, Hanna Fotsch at hanna@jewishcolumbus.org for more information.
Click here to sign-up to volunteer to help us staff the festival!