No, this fast is not as much of an obligation. Therefore there is much more leniency to not fast if one is sick or just had a baby etc. Obviously at the...

Both Men and Women are obligated to hear the megillah read by day and night.

Megillah is read then Viyahi Noam and then V’atah Kadosh and then full kaddish without tiskabel and then Vayiten L’chah and then Havdalah and then aleinu. –...

One gives tzedaka in the costs of the coins picks it up and gives it back so the next person can do it since the half coins are hard to come by.