Here’s one in honor of Purim: a formal pic of the rabbis from our delegation to Iran last fall. (That’s HUC Rabbinical student Saran Bassin on the left and the mighty Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb on the right).
“And the city of Shushan rang with joyous cries…” Happy Purim one and all!
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Rabbis in Shushan
Posted in Iran, Iran Trip 2008, Purim on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Purim!
Posted in American Judaism, Judaism, Purim, Religion on March 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Purim and the Jewish Id
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Fear, Iran, Israel, Judaism, Peace, Politics/Middle East, Purim, Religion, Religion/Politics, Terrorism, Torah Commentary on March 2, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’m willing to lay odds that this Purim there will be a fair share of Jewish commentators claiming that history is repeating itself in Shushan – that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the contemporary Haman come back to life to once again threaten the Jewish people with genocide. I’m also fairly sure that some of [...]
Jewish Iran 101
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Iran, Israel, Judaism, Politics/Middle East, Purim, Religion, Religion/Politics, Zionism on February 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Purim – the festival that highlights the experience of ancient Persian Jewry – arrives this weekend. In advance of the holiday, (and given the current state of affairs in that part of the world) I thought it might be interesting to take a closer look at the little-known present day Jewish community of Iran.
Some of [...]
Sick to My Stomach
Posted in Capital Punishment, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics/Middle East, Purim, Religion on January 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Like many of you, I couldn’t avoid images of Saddam’s hanging blasting out at me from every corner of the web this past week. The top posts on most blogs invariably advertised the most “uncensored” version of the now infamous cell phone footage of the Hussein execution. Not a proud week to be a blogger…
Apart [...]
The Trauma of Remembrance
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Fear, Judaism, Purim, Religion, Terrorism, Torah Commentary on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Therefore, when the LORD your God grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!(Deuteronomy 25:19)
Tonight we begin Shabbat Zachor (”The Shabbat of Rembrance”) – [...]
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