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Purim is a time for laughter and fear
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Jerusalem Post
03-17-1995
IS Purim a happy day or a sad day? On the surface, the question seems absurdly out of place; Purim appears to be the most joyous day on the Jewish calendar. We are Divinely mandated to eat and drink, even to the extent that a person can no longer distinguish between praising Mordechai and cursing Haman.
In carnival fashion, everyone wears costumes, and Rav Moshe Isserles, author of the Ashkenazi version of the Shulhan Arukh Code of...
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Interview: Flora Purim on her new CD, "Perpetual Emotion"
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