Posted on 03/04/2007 9:47:48 AM PST by Alouette
HAPPY PURIM FREEPERS!
Here are some pictures of Purim celebrations, feel free to add your own!
Israeli girls wear costume as they take part in a Purim parade in the town of Holon just outside Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 4, 2007. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli dance on a float as they take part in a Purim parade in the town of Holon just outside Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, March 4, 2007. Purim is a celebration of the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Scroll of Esther. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
An Israeli man dressed as Marge Simpson takes part in a parade celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim in the central town of Holon March 4, 2007. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL)
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (R) holds a balloon as he speaks with patients and medical staff dressed in costumes for the Jewish holiday of Purim during a visit to the children's ward at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem March 4, 2007 in this picture released by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO). REUTERS/Moshe Milner/GPO/Handout (JERUSALEM) ISRAEL OUT. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
An Israeli boy dressed as a king for the Jewish holiday of Purim hands a microphone to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in his Jerusalem Office, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007. Purim - which celebrates the miraculous salvation of the Jews and the thwarting of Haman's genocidal plot - has traditionally symbolized the victory of the Jewish people over anti-Semitic tyranny. As such, Purim is a happy, carnival-like holiday. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)
Ultra Orthodox Jews attend a special prayer calling for the death of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , at a religious school in Jerusalem, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007. Yaakov Batsri of the Sukat David School, said the prayer was linked to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim, when Jews overcame an ancient Persian tyrant, Haman, through prayer and fasting.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Purim parade in Ashkelon
Jewish children at a Moscow kindergarten in Purim costume.
Alouette's granddaughter as Queen Esther, at a Moscow Purim party.
Alouette's granddaughter as Rachel the Matriarch, at a Moscow Purim party.
Ah Freilachen Purim!!
1)Purim is the only day in the year in which it is permitted to dress in the clothing of the opposite sex. On every other day of the year it is strictly forbidden. So please, no freaking of the guy dressed as Marge.
2)Purim is not observed by the liberal "branches of Judaism" because it involves nasty things like killing the bad guys instead of having "talks" and singing Kumbayah with them. This makes it interesting to note that apparently in Israel Purim is celebrated even by the secular population.
3)Alouette, your grandaughter is absolutely darling!!! Mazzal tov to your family!
Anti-Semites have already been claiming that gentile blood is used in Hamantaschen, though I don't know how long that one's been around.
Oh, by the way y'all, I just wanted to register that I am highly offended that Purim isn't celebrated publicly in every city that has a public m*rdi gras or "St. Patrick's Day" parade. What is this, a chr*stian theocracy??? In the place of the fascism and exclusivity of these Southern Baptist holidays, Purim celebrates inclusion and tolerance and secularism and the fact that no one has an exclusive claim to truth and that true believer always wind up killing people (which is why they should all be killed before they can kill someone!), and illustrates that all cultures are welcome in America--not just white chr*stians, but Chinese, and the Roma, and Australian aborigines, and Mongolians, and Berbers, and Circassians, and Albanians, and Lapps, and the most oppressed and therefore "Jewish" people in the world, Hispanic Catholics and Black Fundamentalist Protestants!
Oh, wait a minute . . . that's right . . . the only offensive chr*stian holiday is 12/25, and Chanukkah is the only Jewish holiday worth celebrating publicly. Oh well. My mistake!
Happy e*ster, everyone!!!
End sarcasm. We now return you to our everyday frame of mind.
Happy Purim to y'all!
Hopefully this will be the last Purim we will have to be concerned about Ahmedinejad!
Beautiful grand daughters.
How beautiful is your granddaughter, and thank you for the ping!
--isn't it ironic that there is a Haman in Persia today who wants to destroy the Jews?
"In each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us, but the Holy One, Blessed Be He, saves us from their hands." --Haggadah of Passover.
What beautiful (grand)children!
Happy Purim and may God bless Queen Esther for her courage! And may God grant the Jews a new savior from today's "Haman".
Isn't it ironic that last week my bible opened up to the Book of Esther?
Those are TWO of my very beautiful, brilliant and extraordinarily talented granddaughters, at their young age, spreading the Word of G-D in MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION (formerly USSR).
Happy Purim to you, too! It just happens that my Sunday School class is currently studying the book of Esther. I have read the story before, but haven't studied it in detail.
How did you say, "I am bursting with pride" in Hebrew again? I recall you mentioning the transliteration here before.
Happy Purim to all Jewish FReepers!
Awwwwww, I love the pictures!
You're granddaughters are beautiful!
Isn't it a testimony to Ronald Reagan that you could show us those lovely children from Moscow! That was my first thought...
Happy Purim!
I am not up on this one but Happy Day.
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