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Have a Beautiful Purim with a Righteous Heart from all of your Comrades at Jewschool. Children in Purim Costume (pictured above), at the S.M. Gurewicz high school in Vilna, 1933. Note the two Native...
View ArticleVe-Nahafoch Hu: Making Your Way Through an Upside-Down World
This is a guest post by Joshua Schwartz, editor-in-chief for Uri L’Tzedek’s “Ve-Nahafoch Hu: Making Your Way Through an Upside-Down World.” It with great pride and attendant humility that I announce...
View ArticlePurim, Persia, and … Ahmadinejad?
Purim is upon us. Remember Purim? For those not in the know, Purim is the next in the order of Jewish holidays which fit the meme: “they tried to kill us, they didn’t, lets eat,”—though Purim adds “and...
View ArticleDov in Blackface
I was going to write a post about how I don’t miss New York State politics and point to the STUPID move by Dov Hikind wearing and defending his wearing of black face for Purim. But Jon Stewart did a...
View ArticleThe King and the Ring (On Purim and Violence)
x-posted to Justice in the City The question, twenty years after Baruch Goldstein slaughtered 29 Palestinians at prayer, wounding tens more, is this: How can we celebrate Purim? Goldstein, heard the...
View Articlea freylikhen shushan purim!
Wishing you and yours a most joyous Shushan Purim from New York! The following Purim schtick video is brought to you by some of your favourite Jews from the Jewish Theological Seminary:
View ArticleRabbinical Girl
The following post is contributed by guest poster Miriam Liebman. A native Detroiter, Miriam Liebman is currently a second-year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Miriam is also an...
View ArticleThoughts on Amalek from the Jerusalem Sermon Slam
For anyone trying to hold on to those last breaths of Purim, here is my piece from the recent Jerusalem Sermon Slam on the theme of Amalek, in which I consider a bizarrely persistent custom about about...
View ArticleFASHION ALERT: In U.S., SS Guard uniforms “aus;” in Israel, KKK “glory...
You may have seen the controversial photos released this past week: patrons of a German restaurant in Minnesota decked out in SS Guard uniforms; Harel High School students in Mevasseret Tzion parading...
View ArticleSodomy on the Loose in Florida
by William Friedman “This was the sin of your sister Sodom . . .” If you’re familiar with the way the Biblical story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is used in America nowadays, you’d probably...
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