GLUTEN FREE HAMANTASCHEN Yields 1 ½ dozen Hamantaschen Ingredients: Filling: 2 cups water 1 cup poppy seed (or other filling of choice) 1/3 cup raisins Finely grated zest of 1 small orange ½ cup orange juice ¼ cup honey ½ cup granulated sugar ¼ tsp ground cinnamon 1/8 tsp salt 1 egg, beaten lightly 1/3…
For 72 years running, some of the country’s foremost scholars have gathered in one of the University of Chicago’s most Gothic halls to debate one of the most challenging questions of our time: what is superior, latkes, the Hanukkah fried potato special, or hamentashen, the triangular Purim pastries? To paraphrase 2018 debate moderator Joshua Feigelson,…
Let’s get one thing straight: Halloween is by no means a Jewish holiday. It takes place entirely outside, it promises zero alcohol or home cooking, and it celebrates fear for fear’s sake (like life’s not bad enough!) But Purim isn’t for another five months, so let’s do this. Here are 12 Halloween costume ideas that…
The story of Purim opens with a 180-day party capped off by a seven-day mega-party. It ends with the instruction that the holiday should be celebrated by Jews “as days of feasting and merrymaking,” which should be taken as “an obligation.” And so, on Wednesday night I set off into the night with the goal…
The Forward recently ran an article by Elon Gilad that argues that dressing up for Purim is a relatively new tradition, dating back to a particular banquet in Vienna in 1900. The article is interesting, but it has one of the worst headlines I’ve seen in recent memory: Wearing Costumes On Purim Is Not A…
Jewish White House staffers made time Wednesday evening to gather in the building to celebrate the holiday of Purim by reading the Megillah, the Book of Esther. The reading, led by Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, included the traditional noise-making groggers that participants sounded off every time the reader said the name of the evil…
Purim is the Jewish holiday on which we are commanded to drink. And I’m not just talking about a Kiddush cup full of Manischewitz. No, on Purim we are supposed to get shickered, that it is to say, drunk. How drunk? What’s the point? Where does this all come from anyway? This seems a bit…
Donald Trump is a modern American man, one of the most powerful people in the world, thrice married and not known for his meekness. The heroine of the Purim story, Esther, was an orphaned Jewess from ancient Persia plucked out of obscurity to be queen, remembered for her courage to speak truth to power. Hardly…
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