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Posts from the ‘Purim’ Category

Every right to expect miracles

Religion absurdly performed

How Jewish is the Megillah?

The Purim feast

Hey, man! – an eccentric guide to the Purim cast

How were Mordechai & Esther related? – Ask the Rabbi

Esther’s intermarriage – Ask the Rabbi

The Purim jump – Ask the Rabbi

Mordechai the enigma – Purim

Half a shekel – Purim

Frightened of the Jews – Purim

How Purim was saved

The playful seriousness of the Feast of Purim

The Purim pretence

What a year since last Purim

Book of the Exile – Purim

Esther in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Fancy dress on Purim

Purim: God is present, even in His absence

Psalm 22 – the Purim story in poetry

Purim was saved by the antisemites

The genesis of Purim

God’s name in the Megillah

Vashti – a fraud married to a fiction

In praise of Esther

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