I like PURIM wildly politically incorrect because
I always got to play Heroine Queen Esther
at the Beth Israel Synagogue Purim play.
Story recap: In ancient Babylonia
evil King Ahashuerus told Queen Vashti to dance
for his drunken friends. Vashti said No.
Ahashuerus had a contest for a new queen and Jewish Esther won.
She saved her people from evil Haman, number 2 in the court, who was executing Jews.
Haman wore a three cornered hat. We eat cookies like his hat (I love poppy seed).
When I moved to New York feminists picketed Purim in front of Zabars:
Down with Esther.
Did they really picket Purim???!!! I brought hamantashen to my Palestinians colleagues at Palestine-Israel Journal, and one of them asked what's the meaning of that strange shaped cookie. I explained briefly the Purim story, the evil Haman, etc., and that we therefore eat Haman's ears (Oznei Haman in Hebrew) to remember the occasion. They thought it was a very strange custom. I forgot about the three-cornered hat.
Down with Haman. Virtual Purim here at 6!