The Jewish holiday of Purim begins tomorrow at sundown and continues throughout the day on Tuesday. Today was a very busy day — which included rehearsal of tomorrow evening’s reading of Megillat Esther (the Scroll of Esther), going to a costume shop  get the rest of the appropriate accessories (which had a massive going-out-of-business sale!), […]

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As I had mentioned in the comments to my previous entry, Brotherly SPAM, I decided to email my brother, a congregational rabbi, in the format of a Nigerian 419 scam email to humbly invite myself and my family to his place for the Passover holiday. Lucky for me, he found it while checking his SPAM […]

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Okay, all. I’m sleepy and exhausted and will be getting to bed really soon. I’ll post more tomorrow. Promise. But before I do: Tonight began the Jewish holiday of Purim, a day which chronicles the events as written in the Biblical Book (Scroll) of Esther The synopsis: About 2500 years ago the Persian King Achashverosh, […]

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