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Tuesday, March 07, 2023

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

Times of Israel has an interesting article about how crypto-Jews in Mallorca would continue to celebrate Purim by calling it the "Feast of St. Esther." A brave woman named Ana Cortés admitted to the Church that she was still celebrating Jewish holidays and studying (illegal) Jewish texts.The crypto-Jews of Mallorca paid a heavy price for clinging to their Jewish...

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 York Herald found it extraordinary.You can expand the illustration above from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper to get an idea of the revelry.It had jokes and merriment, political spoofs and newspaper parodies, costumes and music, so much...

Massekhet Purim: Talmud parody from the 14th century

Google Books has a 19th century printing of Massekhet Purim, a Purim parody of the Talmud, along with two other Purim parodies of the Passover Haggadah and of the Selichot said in prayers before fast days and other occasions.The Talmud parody is pretty funny, with the names of rabbis (and commentaries) all jokes.I'm not sure about the commentaries, but the Talmud text of the...

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

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 destroy them. Hamas, which shares Haman's desire to destroy the Jews, is now telling Palestinians to attack any Jews who want to visit the Temple Mount this week for the occasion. Mohammed Hamada, a Hamas spokesman, issued a statement...

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

Yesterday, social media (including myself) had a field day with the revelation that in 2018, Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene had come up with a theory that California wildfires might have been started by public utility PG&E, which worked with the Rothschild family, using a satellite that redirects the sun's rays to Earth, in order to clear room...

Purim and natural hate

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 was so irrational, although he pretended to justify it using weak arguments that people are more than willing to swallow to justify their own bigotry. It is exactly the same today, as the Israel-haters are completely irrational. Their hate comes first, and their justifications come later. Answer their points and...

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

One of the issues with remembering Amalek, one of the key commandments connected to the Purim holiday, is identifying who they are, today. How can you know absolutely that someone is part of the evil nation of Amalek? Because we're not only commanded to remember them, but to obliterate every trace of them. A new video may not tell us all the answers, but it does give us...