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Monday, March 25th 2024 / Monday, March 25th 2024
ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND Walled Cities “from the Time of Joshua” Celebrate Shushan Purim – Why: Prof. Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, The Torah.com, Mar. 4, 2020 — Explaining the origins of the Purim festival, Esther chapter 9 describes how the Jews throughout Persia defeated their enemies on the 13th of Adar and celebrated on the 14th (v. 17). We are […]
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Monday, March 25th 2024 / Sunday, March 24th 2024
Leanne Stillerman Zabow, Times of Israel, Mar. 25, 2024 This is our first Purim in Israel as olim (immigrants). I heard the question “how can we celebrate and be happy at such a time”? asked several times. The resounding idea came through that even more so, we should celebrate this year. We are […]
Stuart Halpern WSJ, Mar. 21, 2024 “Purim’s story reminds its readers that though what the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks called the “dignity of difference” might be intolerable for some, pride in Jewish particularism serves as the wellspring of salvation.” Jews have always been a biblically minded people, but this year one ancient story feels tragically resonant. Synagogues […]
Rabbi Wendy Zierler The Torah.com, Mar. 17, 2016 “Purim merits repeated reassertion and preservation as an enduring truth in modern times and beyond not merely because it serves as a yearly reminder of Jewish vulnerability in exile and our gratitude for all the salvation that chance has sent our way but because it is the holiday […]
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