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I can see Hasidim in cowboy hats out my window.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmm, hammentoshen!

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

That's what I'm talking about.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's a Purim fun fact. According to Talmudic commentator Rava, a person is obligated to drink on Purim until he does not know the difference between "cursed be Haman" and "blessed be Mordechai." It's scripturally-prescribed drunkenness!

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmmm,, Hasidim!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I once saw two Hasidim high-fiving each other outside my building. The one guy even started it about five feet away, raising his arm and going in for the slow-mo-stride while the other guy had his palm out and ready. They both had really big hands, too. It was awesome.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Orthodox Jews are cool. I live in a big Eastern European jewish neighbourhood, and with those black suits and hats, its like Resevoir Dogs goes to St Petersburg. It's great!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't confuse the Orthodox with the Hasidim--they're very different birds.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Arent Hasidic jews the ones who do tefilim (sp?) and wear the full-on suits/skullcaps/ringlets of hair/belt thing each day, the men in particular?

Or are there some Orth. Jewish who look like that but arent Hasidic? Sorry for the ignorant-sounding question! :)

(me not jewish, obv.)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Poppyseed hamantashen are my addiction.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

There are many Orthodox (some denominated Modern Orthodox) who look nothing like Hasids.

It's all about prunes, and ignoring encomiums not to eat them all at once.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Tefillin (actually, I don't know how to do the transliteration either) are mandated for everyone, so you'll see pretty much any strictly observant Jew donning them in the morning. You can distinguish Hasidim from their dress--the fur caps, frock coats etc. Many Orthodox Jews dress very secularly--they'll wear kippahs (skullcaps) but not peyos (ringlets).

Honestly, it's confusing even to us Jews. There are many different sects of Hasidim (all headed up by various rabbis, most who live in Brooklyn, though there are some in Israel), and many ideological divisions between them. Montreal has a large Hasidic population but I don't believe any rabbis actually reside here, although one American rabbi who was on the lam (long story) used to live across the street from a friend of mine.

I can go into more detail about the Hasidic movement if you like.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there still a residual anti-Israel attitude amongst the Hasidim? I mean, they derive from a form of Judaism that was more or less in opposition to the enlightenment Judaism that sired modern Zionism.

In other news: Noisemakers! Yay!

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to admit the whole thing had me rather intriugued after I first saw the movie "Pi". From your description slutsky, I'd say there are some Hasidim in Melbourne, because I see old guys looking pretty full on with huge beards, wool hats, ringlets on their little sons, big dark coats, sometimes chanting to themselves etc. Theres a rabinnical college 3 doors up from my apartment if that makes it any clearer... there's also some houses around that say things like "mosiach is coming, be ready!", they almost look like political flyers with the "authorised by Rebbe blah blah" at the bottom.

Never really understood it all, but all those ancient rituals and things like the cabalah certainly sound interesting. The politics and who owes who blood, on the other hand, annoys.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Noisemakers are wonderful.

Among certain Hasidim there's more than a residual anti-Israel attitude--they're VIRULENTLY anti-Israel. The Satmars, for instance, which form a large population here in Mtl (and whose name incidentally derives from my grandfather's hometown in Romania) are pretty well-known for this--picketing (in NYC) hotels where Israeli dignitaries stay etc. There's also a group called Neturei Katura, who are very politically engaged with anti-Israel causes. To put it very simply (as I'm rushing somewhere) they believe that the existence of the state of Israel runs counter to scripture, which mandates an end to the diaspora only when the Messiah (aka Moshiach) descends.

By the way, when that happens, all the dead Jews in the world will apparently tunnel through the earth towards Israel, where they'll be ressurected. Some American Jews have Israeli soil imported to the States to be buried in, which they believe will spare them the uncomfortable and bone-rattling journey through the ground.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 05:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Trayce, those sound like Lubavitchers, who are very vocally messianic. There's lots of interesting things to say about them but I don't have time right now, so I'll try later.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 05:03 (twenty-three years ago)

For better understanding of Hasidic Jews, read Chaim Potok. The Chosen is a good start.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in Stamford Hill, London N16, and right now there are lights strung across the streets, Hasidic kids in firemans' hats and sombreros, frantic synth-klezmer sounds pouring out of every synagogue, and general madness all round. Purim rules! Have a good one.

― Mr Binturong (Mr Binturong), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

it's the Jewish St. Patrick's Day! winner.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a big Lubavitch community in Stamford Hill. They march on pro-palestinian rallies.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

There was all sortsa craziness outside my place last night--lots of kids running around and music pouring out of buildings. It is rather funny that it coincides so neatly with St. Patrick's Day.

One hat that I couldn't really identify was this popular red one--it looked sort of like a scout hat, with its wide brim, or like the hats the wild bunch wore in The Wild Bunch, only red.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Slutsky could be the name of the next Tatu album. Anyone?

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, the Lubavichers believe that Moshiach (the Messiah) is coming, and that the way to hasten his arrival is to do mitzvot and good deeds. The ones I've met are not anti-Israel by any means. It's really just the Neturei Katura who are outspoken against Israel.

We have a Lubavitch synagogue in my Seattle neighborhood - they're come of the most welcoming people I've met in town.

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Re the Purim mitzvah to get drunk - alcohol is actually quite a part of Hasidic (at least Lubavitch) life! Go to any Sabbath table, and you'll hear exclamations of "l'chaim" followed by a shot of liquor or wine. Drink up: it's in the Torah!

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

My modern Orthodox friends have more enmity toward the Lubavitchers etc. than a lot of nonreligious or Reform Jews I know, chiefly because they have more stake in Judaism and are more embarrassed by the Hassid's version of same, with its self-segregation and Old World dress, etc.

The Lubavitchers may be nice people, but their faith is rather sinister I think, between its chauvinism and its misogyny.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the coolest sect has to be the one (cant remember name) that mandates that dancing is a way to honor god. in Israel, I saw a lot of these people dancing around the streets all the time. that so rocks... they are probably the first monotheistic ravers ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Lara, I've heard pretty much every joke possible concerning my name, but that one was actually pretty funny.

Amateurist, I wouldn't say the Lubavitcher faith is neccessarily more misogynistic than any strict interpretation of Judaism (or Christianity, or Islam or whatever for that matter). I find them pretty interesting in their proactive idea of messianism--that the performance of mitzvot (commandments, or biblically ordained deeds like donning tefillim) hastens the comming of Moshiach.

― slutsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I was on the hideous 253 bus going through Stamford Hill last night, and there seemed to be fun happening. One wee kiddy had the BEST tiger suit, tail and everything. Get those black satin coats, kneebritches and white stockings on the men! Is that how they're supposed to dress all the time? I can see it getting a bit difficult if it is.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought she was pretty good in Return to Forever.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Only certain Orthodox groups wear the white stockings. It's fairly incongruous to see them on men with long beards.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a hasidic community in Union City, NJ. i was told about them by the owner of a local coffee shop several years ago, when i was doing a summer clerkship at a firm where one of the attorneys was an orthodox rabbi. the coffee-shop owner wrote down their name on a napkin (something Hebrew-sounding), so that i could show the rabbi their name and ask if he knew who they were. when i handed the napkin with their name to him, he looked like i vomited in his hand -- he sighed, "yes, i know who they are." apparently, he thinks they're a bunch of nuts. rabbi eli also had some pretty harsh things to say about the Shatmar Hasidim (they live in Williamsburg).

long way of verifying anecdotally the observation upthread that some mainstream orthodox don't like the hasidim very much.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

My home town has a large Satmar Hasidic community. I got to sell the ladies lots of china. I always feel sort of bad for them during the summer, their clothes look so hot and uncomortable.

― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I see the stockings on lots of bearded Hasids. The wearing of long black coats, stockings etc is customary, not lawfully ordained. Consider it more cultural than religious. I wonder too how they get along in the summer, when it gets very hot here. Apparently the summer garb is quite thin in comparison to what they wear in the winter, but still. I guess you just get used to it.

― slutsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously! Those Brooklyn summers can get quite hot.

― mike a (mike a), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

why do the hasidim dress the particular way that they do? not the tefillin, peyos, and kippahs (which, i take it, are from the torah), but the black frock coats, white shirts and stockings, etc. one of my law school adjunct professors -- who's reform and rather old -- used to say that they "dressed like 17th century Polish burghers" (you can guess from the foregoing that he didn't like the hasidim very much). is that where they adopted that form of dress (since hasidism started in poland, i think) or is it also biblical?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

It ain't Biblical, I'll tell you that much. You're right, the tefillin, peyos and kippahs (and to some extent the tzitzis, the fringes you sometimes see under men's shirts) are Biblically mandated.

But the fur hats (streimls), frock coats, stockings etc are tradition, dating from common dress in old Eastern Europe, where Hasidism originated (as a rebellious movement encouraging ecstatic religious experience of God, by the way).

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Marcello (of course) beat me to the Flora Purim gag.

I was sorry to read that Paul Haines had died recently.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Hasidic talking fish!

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 20 March 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a few blocks in the inner suburban part of this city which seem to be an ultra-orthodox Jewish enclave. You can be the only car on the main drag in the middle of Saturday morning and you see the men in their black coats and the women and the kids done up in their best clobber going into the synagogues and the really amazing thing is when its raining they're all dressed up but nobody has an umbrella, the women of all ages wear those folding clear plastic hats like your grandma might wear and even the men have their own specially designed plastic rainhats to fit over those big black brim hats they wear. As fashion it looks daft to me and it must all be really inconvenient so why do they do it?

― Nosey Parker, Saturday, 22 March 2003 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Well... Hasidism, at least in my understanding, is a deeply inward-looking religious movement, so shut off from the non-Hasidic world that there's no differentiation between observance of their religious and secular customs. It's not Biblically or halachically ordained to dress like old world Eastern Europeans, but it just must have become the accepted practice. It probably has something seriously to do with setting themselves aside from the secular world too.

― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 22 March 2003 06:59 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

who's getting drunk this weekend???

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess it's too late to make some hamantaschen.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"this weekend"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll happily take this holiday as an excuse to drink! Note also Slutsky's wise comment above:

Mazel tov!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

L'chaim, mofos!

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 6 March 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

hasids streamed down the street outside my house today en masse

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 March 2004 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

So we sing! So we sing!
So we sing and raise a row!
For Haman he was swinging
While Mordecai was singing
Down in Shu-Shu-Shushan long ago

― just me, Sunday, 7 March 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I can vouch for the hamantaschen at Carmelli's in Golders Green (London).

― Daniel (dancity), Sunday, 7 March 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess it's too late to make some hamantaschen.

It's NEVER too late to make hamantaschen. Or too early. I've got to have them at least four times a year.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

(note: the above only applies to poppyseed hamantaschen, the only true hamantaschen)

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 7 March 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh, Jordan, I was thinking of making nutella hamataschen. Or recreating the Peepentaschen we made in college.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 7 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

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― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Purim because no one came into the shop last night, so Jenn and I could play UNO all night

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 25 March 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot it was purim. i should do something.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's what I recommend:

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it Purim? Oh shit! Poppyseed hamantaschen time!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

peach schnaps

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

the synagogue i was at last night had two little nips of peach schnaps for every adult in their michloach manot baskets.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 25 March 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Purim is great

― Great, Brave, True, Strong, Great, Real, Wise, Great, Crazy/Beautiful, Grea (nor, Friday, 25 March 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

spotted outside the building this morning:
- at least two dozen cowboys
- one commando in fatigues and a sash that said commando
- three clowns
- one hello kitty
- one pink bunny

i always want to yell "haman!" but it never quite seems right.

― jones (actual), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha A BUNNY i didn't get this until just now!!

― jones (actual), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit - drinks and silly hats tonight for sure! where's my grager.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 March 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, Purim and Good Friday on the same day! Talk about polar opposites.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I had two (I am assuming) Chabad boys in my store today wearing t shirts that said Absolut Purim under their button down shirts and jackets. They asked me if there were any Jews working at my store. I wanted to say nice shirts!!! but just 'no, sorry'.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish they had had vodka, or at least P&Ps, with them instead of tefillin.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

We had our Purim play tonight. I got Queen Esther. Sammy, holding a lightsaber, was Mordecai: "I am a Jew. The only one I bow to...IS GOD."

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 26 March 2005 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a friend of mine who have a mixed marriage--this is an awkard weekend for their children.

― anthony, Saturday, 26 March 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, is it Purim? That explains what I saw yesterday I guess - heaps of people getting about in fancy dress costumes and sparkly wigs and all sorts of odd stuff. There was clapping and music and singing coming out of quite a few homes in my street :)

What would the deal have been with all the fancy dress, is that oart of it, or did I just happen to see a load of jewish families all going to the same party?

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 26 March 2005 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Been doin' boilers. Still can tell "Blessed is Mordecai" from "Cursed is Haman" although my typing skills have suffered badly.

C vitamins, water and bed.

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Saturday, 26 March 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

long way of verifying anecdotally the observation upthread that some mainstream orthodox don't like the hasidim very much.

The original break between the Hassidim and the (sp?)Mitnaggadim was a pretty violent process if I recall correctly. It's the old 'better an infidel than a heretic' issue I suppose.

― Slaw, Saturday, 26 March 2005 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

this is the first year i've lived near a large hassidic community (stamford hill, north london), they seemed to be having a *lot* of fun yesterday and i was only out of the house at about 2 in the afternoon ;)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Absolut Purim - i saw this on a poster for a chabad-organized purim party in my neighborhood! must be an intl. campaign.

― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

On Thursday evening I witnessed a full-on elephant costume trying to convince a bus driver she was 14 and didn't need to pay an adult fare.

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 26 March 2005 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

from an e-mail i received from a friend

"All Halachic authorities are unanimous in ruling that it is a mitzvah to drink, and drink to excess, on Purim...intoxicated on Purim to the point that one’s reason is totally incapacitated is a legitimate Halachic position" - www.chabad.com

6 signs of a kick *ss Purim party
1. You are tagteaming with another dj you've never spun with before and you are so in synch he ends up playing 3 tracks you had literally cued up and decided not to play at the very last minute
2. The dance floor rocks no matter what you throw at them: Turkish darbuka house, Brazilian electro carnival anthems, Balkan gypsy dancehall, distorted Congolese thumb pianos, Madonna remixes, or the now classic rai version of Rich Girl.
3. One of the many costumes "Esthers" says backstage "I like making out with strangers" and ends up sticking her tongue down the throat of some ex-yeshiva boy standing next to you who has the luck of being in the dressing room at that moment.
4. The drag rebbe host is so drunk s/he ends up being escorted up to a cab home, and the vodka tonic s/he spills as s/he comes on stage thankfully doesn't melt down the mixer.
5. You're playing a remix track by a Brazilian legend from Bahia, and when you look up, there is the actual Brazilian legend dancing to her own song.
6. During the next song, you end up dancing with the actual Brazilian Legend.

― H (Heruy), Saturday, 26 March 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

WOW H WHO WAS IT?

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 26 March 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

asked that same question last night actually, Daniela Mercury. who is great ut not sure i'd have used the word Legend quite yet

― H (Heruy), Sunday, 27 March 2005 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that sounds insane!!

i was kept up all night last night by drunk hasidic boys outside my house!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this thread was about Flora Purim, the Brasilian singer. She's lovely!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 27 March 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

weird that it kinda IS about a brazilian singer now!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 27 March 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope there's a brazilian singer named joão pesach

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I've never had that kind of Purium. I did bake poppyseed hamantaschen today though, they're delicious.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

purium, is that like adamantium with a yarmulke?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

it's the molecule that makes up poppy seeds

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 28 March 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't drink nearly enough this weekend. it may be time for some more dark & stormys.

― i am the modren man (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 March 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

revive!

Purim is Thursday, but no one at the TDA cares (but me.)

They give us Good Friday off, though, so hangover here I come!

― Oilyrags, Monday, 17 March 2008 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

bump for hamantaschen

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 20 March 2008 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

for some reason i never make hamantaschen around purim, but get a craving and make them in, like, october.

― Jordan, Thursday, 20 March 2008 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

A bunch of very very drunk young jewish guys were hoiking up and down the street last night yelling and giggling and occasionally going "ooops shhhh" and dropping bottles and stuff at about 3am. Woke me up, but pretty hilaro.

― Trayce, Thursday, 20 March 2008 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

:D I just went down to the shops, and a couple of old hasid men are driving around the streets in a truck with speakers on the roof blasting acid techno and shouting stuff over the top of it in yiddish. People everywhere in wigs and costumes.Awesome.

― Trayce, Friday, 21 March 2008 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

good yuntif everybody

― max, Friday, 21 March 2008 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

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― felicity, Friday, 21 March 2008 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

Chag sameach

― felicity, Friday, 21 March 2008 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Trayce, I'm in Carlisle St now and that crazy dude in the car is up and down all over the place.

Also there was this little three year old boy done up as a fundy muslim! SO CUTE.

― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

OMG waht! Hahaha!

― Trayce, Friday, 21 March 2008 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Hamentaschen fail, all the stores are sold out!

― omar little, Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:50 (eight years ago)

My own fault for waiting til late afternoon on the day of, caught slippin once again.

― omar little, Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:51 (eight years ago)

I was highway-robbed on a fake one before getting home to the package of sibling-made real deals my building people had failed to advise of

― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 1 March 2018 02:56 (eight years ago)

here are many Orthodox (some denominated Modern Orthodox) who look nothing like Hasids.
It's all about prunes, and ignoring encomiums not to eat them all at once.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, March 17, 2003 11:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 March 2018 03:45 (eight years ago)

Hamentaschen...stores?

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:07 (eight years ago)

I just told a guy where to find some

― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:11 (eight years ago)

(ime hamentaschen are made, not bought, just use the recipe on the inside of the Solo label)

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 1 March 2018 04:23 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

about to go on a hamantaschen hunt.

― omar little, Wednesday, 20 March 2019 21:55 (seven years ago)

my one and only exposure to Purim has been in the form of eating hammentaschen, but if that is not enough to make a person love Purim, they are deficient in the capacity to love.

― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 March 2019 03:45 (seven years ago)

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