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Showing posts with label Purim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Purim. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 07, 2023

The crime of "Judaizing" - what's old is new again

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Times of Israel has an interesting article about how crypto-Jews in Mallorca would continue to celebrate Purim by calling it the "Fea...

The best Purim party of the 19th century

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The Purim Ball at New York's Academy of Music in 1865 was one of the most extravagant events of the year - and the reviewer in the New Y...
Monday, March 06, 2023

Massekhet Purim: Talmud parody from the 14th century

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Google Books has a 19th century printing of Massekhet Purim, a Purim parody of the Talmud, along with two other Purim parodies of the Passo...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Hamas and the PA calls on Palestinians to attack Jews who visit the Temple Mount on Purim

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This week is the holiday of Purim, celebrating the salvation of Jews from the schemes of the Persian Empire and its evil vizier Haman to des...
Friday, January 29, 2021

From Pharaoh to space lasers: Blaming Jews is the original conspiracy theory

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Yesterday, social media (including myself) had a field day with the revelation that in 2018, Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene h...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

Purim and natural hate

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As I was reading the megillah this Purim, it occurred to me that the most resonant part of the story today is that Haman's hate for Jews...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Esther's Secret Prophecy: The Link to the Nazi Regime (Judean Rose)

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One of the issues with remembering Amalek, one of the key commandments connected to the Purim holiday, is identifying who they are, today...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Introducing Queen Esther Coffee

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MEMRI brings us another insane Egyptian cleric , who says that the girl on the Starbucks logo is none other than Queen Esther! Following ...