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ikojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:22 PM
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Chag Purim Yehudim!
Now if only we had a Queen Esther to deal with our Haman (booo hissss!)
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 10:57 PM
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1. What is the difference
between cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordechai, anyway? I'm too drunk to tell.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-24-05 11:54 PM
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2. Yes, Dubya = Haman!
My dad says that often.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:24 PM
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6. Actually I think Haman = Karl Rove
Bush = Ahasuerus.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:33 PM
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7. Maybe, but Ahasuerus came out all right in the
end and stopped the killing of the Jews. I don't think Dubya will wise up like that.
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:37 AM
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8. Me neither
but then again he's not married to someone with the integrity and chutzpah of Esther.
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Debbi801 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 11:28 AM
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3. I belong to a pretty liberal reform congregation...
After the reading of the Megilla, they always do a Purim play of some sort, always a comedy. Anyway, in last night's, the man who played King Ahasheverus (who happens to be the president of the congregation) made a direct comparison to Bush and Haman. The whole congregation laughed.

Debbi
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AlienGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 05:30 PM
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4. Last year during the kids' play
the girl who played King Ahasheverus introduced herself as "King Ahashe...BUSH!" and everyone laughed!

Tucker
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-25-05 08:23 PM
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5. At our Megillah reading
one of the readers said, "Who is this Mordecai, who saved the King's life and who has not been rewarded with even one no-bid contract?"

Another made a joke about Vashti being the WMD.

It's a very political congregation.
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