Purim: The Recap

As predicted, we had a fun time at our temple last night. Here’s the evidence:

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I know, I know, this photo is on the blurry side. But I wanted to show you a bit of the costume finery that showed up.

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When his parents got up to do a reading, a youngster (actually a former student in my second grade religious school class!) left these goodies, hoping his parents wouldn’t notice them before sitting down. They did.

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Remember the part about how we have to make noise to drown out the name of that evil guy during the story? They had a “Noise” sign that they held up for a minute and then put down so that everyone would know when to stop making a ruckus.

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Here’s the 13-year-old growing tired of holding his noisemaker, so he stuck it in his afro wig.

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Here are those Hamentaschen cookies I wrote about yesterday. These have apricot preserves inside.

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Here’s the 13-year-old in a non-identifiable-by-name costume (He wore a Cubs jersey with an afro wig. Simple, understated…) and me, wearing a football jersey from the Powder Puff Football Game at my high school, Farragut High School, Class of 1986! (If you’re a classmate and have found me through a google search, identify yourself in a comment!!!)

Finally, I wanted to give you a taste of the reading (that makes no sense but I’m sure you all really do understand what I mean!). Some of it was read in Hebrew and some in English. This video is some of the Hebrew part. Don’t worry about understanding it; you’ll know when she gets to the parts mentioning the one who must not be named!

Have a Good Friday! (ha ha, get it?)

12 Comments

  • Melissa

    Not often you see King Tut and someone dressed like a Pimp? up at the altar.

    He’s dressed like a cowboy, right?

    Like Kathy, I had to look it up, too. I’m learning so much about Jew stuff! 🙂

  • Kat

    Good Friday..haha I get it. Thanks for the video. OMG that looked like so much fun… fart cushions huh…neat idea.

    I gotta learn more about that Jew stuff too. You can lead us through your religious year and we tag along learning something. Awesome

  • Dea

    Too cool – I have never had the pleasure of being able to go to a Purim service!!! 😀

    And it isn’t JUST Good Friday – it’s my birthday! WOOT!

  • me & them

    Sounds like a fun day! Loving the photos 🙂

    As for my photos…just, ugh. I take hundreds – it’s a good thing my Kodak uploady thing takes so long to save photos, so I generally have to be quite picky about how many I save or I’m stuck for hours.

    I try and name them something vaguely specific about the photo (i.e “beach184757575”) so when I’m looking for them I have a snowball’s chance of finding them. Unfortunately, I am very lazy, and have only just discovered the idea of making lots of folders instead of just using 2 main ones.

    But I rarely upload to flickr or similar, i just keep them clogging space on my mac desktop 🙂 I must do something about this….

  • me & them

    Sounds like a fun day! Loving the photos 🙂

    As for my photos…just, ugh. I take hundreds – it’s a good thing my Kodak uploady thing takes so long to save photos, so I generally have to be quite picky about how many I save or I’m stuck for hours.

    I try and name them something vaguely specific about the photo (i.e “beach184757575”) so when I’m looking for them I have a snowball’s chance of finding them. Unfortunately, I am very lazy, and have only just discovered the idea of making lots of folders instead of just using 2 main ones.

    But I rarely upload to flickr or similar, i just keep them clogging space on my mac desktop 🙂 I must do something about this….

  • me & them

    Sounds like a fun day! Loving the photos 🙂

    As for my photos…just, ugh. I take hundreds – it’s a good thing my Kodak uploady thing takes so long to save photos, so I generally have to be quite picky about how many I save or I’m stuck for hours.

    I try and name them something vaguely specific about the photo (i.e “beach184757575”) so when I’m looking for them I have a snowball’s chance of finding them. Unfortunately, I am very lazy, and have only just discovered the idea of making lots of folders instead of just using 2 main ones.

    But I rarely upload to flickr or similar, i just keep them clogging space on my mac desktop 🙂 I must do something about this….

  • Melisa

    Melissa: Ha! Yes, I think he was going for the cowboy look but I agree, it was sort of pimpish. LOL

    Deanna: Happy (belated) Birthday! You go girl! See you Tuesday, I hope!

  • Dea

    I’ll be at class this week – FINALLY! The knee isn’t hurting as much….and I was officially cleared – YAY!!! 😀