Tag Archives: Purim

Jews and Masks

Posted on March 3, 2015 by admin

Purim is the first spring festival in the Jewish tradition. It celebrates a victory of the Jews and their survival against an evil enemy about 2500 years back, and has borrowed in time elements from the spring festivals and carnivals … Continue reading →

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Jewish Laughs – The Purim Edition

Posted on March 14, 2014 by admin

The pattern of Jewish holidays goes like this. We first say (or watch others saying) a prayer. Then we tell or read a story about how other very very very bad people tried to discriminate, kill, destroy us the very … Continue reading →

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Queen Esther in Arts

Posted on February 23, 2013 by admin

The festive entry today in the blog dedicated to the festival of Purim deals with Queen Esther – one of the beloved characters of the story of Purim and history of Jews. Uncounted Jewish little girls chose her as the … Continue reading →

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Hag Purim Sameah!

Posted on March 7, 2012 by admin

The traditional holiday posting for this Purim gathers music and filmed images, all fun I hope, related to this fun holiday.It’s probably the easiest Jewish holiday to cover 🙂   (video source rogatkaproductions)   The first clip shows a Western … Continue reading →

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Hag Purim Sameach

Posted on March 18, 2011 by admin

They say that Not Everyday is Purim, but today it is (or almost)! We went out for a morning walk in Herzlya and the streets were full of Queens Esther, brave Mordechai’s and Gadhafi’s … uh … sorry … Haman’s. … Continue reading →

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Purim at Iasi

Posted on March 6, 2010 by admin

Purim is over, but here is one beautiful song put on music and sung by Dana from Iasi, a colleague from the Internet list rom-jews on the occasion of the celebration of Purim 5769 at Philharmonic of Iasi, Romania. (video … Continue reading →

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Happy Purim!

Posted on February 25, 2010 by admin

It’s Purim time again. As the saying goes Not each day is Purim my take is that we should get into the mood and start the celebrations. One of the best views of the Purim is on the streets of … Continue reading →

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