by Rabbis Arthur Waskow and Nate DeGroot
Purim commemorates the tale of the Jews’ narrow escape from extermination in Persia’s Achaemenid Empire
ban wild Purim parties in 408 CE – for a very good reason
The story of Purim is
Purim, a joyous Jewish festival commemorating the survival of the Jews who, in the 5th century BCE, were marked for death by their Persian rulers
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Some historians have distorted these
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Therefore, the authors suggest, the radical critique of merit has the wholly unintended consequence of being anti The two Marxes: From Jewish domination to supersession of the Jews
This article identifies two different patterns in how Karl Marx, in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, portrayed the relationship between the Jews and modern capitalism
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we can say that this process is more over a subjective process of qualitative A third theory connects the name Purim with the Hebrew word purah — “wine press” — and assumes that the festival arose in the Greek period as an adaptation of the Greek festival of Pithoigia, or “Opening the Wine Casks
For many, Purim isn’t Purim without hamantashen, a triangular cookie
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When King Ahasuerus had his wife, Queen Vashti, executed for failing to follow his orders, he arranged a beauty pageant to find a new queen
Last Sunday, we joined 400,000 people in the People’s Climate March (PCM) to demand action on climate change
It is customary to fast, commemorating Esther’s fasting and prayer to G‑d that He save His people
This is of course an idea vehemently rejected as utopian in a bad senseby Marx, who in a preface to Capital, vol
The leap year contains an extra month: Adar I and Adar II
Despite political theorists' repeated attempts to demonstrate their incoherence, liberal values appear to have withstood the test of time
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Accordingly, we advance a move beyond a sole engagement with questions of how data are constructed The Book of Deuteronomy is radical in every way
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