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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.

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Down with Haman. Virtual Purim here at 6!

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My last role in a theater production was in a 1947 Purim Play in a Beth Israel Temple in a small town in eastern PA. It was a non-speaking part. I was 9 years old.

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