Purim Round-up
This past weekend may have been some big Jesus-related holiday where y’all eat sugar and ham but it was also Purim. Yes, Purim the Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman’s plot to annihilate them. But it’s also the Jewish Halloween that’s kind of a crappy Halloween, at least at my old Hebrew school. I won’t go into details but we pretty much just had three options for costumes Haman, the villian, King Ahasuerus, the king or Esther (not Madonna but we’ll get to her), the heroine of the story. So you dress up as one of the Purim people and walk in a big circle making noise and eating Hamantaschen.
What the Guy Richie is a Hamantaschen you ask? Well it’s a delicious triangular cookie with fruit or poppy seed filling that’s shapped like Haman’s hat. I’m not sure what age I noticed they totally look like lady business but Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad have made a totally weird and funny song about it.
In other Purim sort of related news, Madonna hit the Jewish-rich people Kabbalah fancy dress party all dolled up like Edith Piaf, however hubby Guy Richie dressed down for the event. From the Daily Mail:
Guy Ritchie, 39, opted to dress as cartoon character Asterix - donning a shapeless white tunic, platinum blonde plaits and a Viking helmet with horns.
The annual party to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim has become a fixture in the Ritchie’s calendar.
But while Madonna makes every effort to wear flattering sexy outfits - last year she wore a 1920s flapper outfit and in 2006 she dressed as a French maid - her husband appears to take the process of dressing up less seriously.
In 2007 he wore a 1970s Village People-style police officer ensemble complete with sunglasses and big moustache to a party at the Kabbalah centre in LA. The year before he wore a costume of Native American Indian dress.
Oh girl, that’s doing nothing to squash the rumors Esther and the cop from the Village People are having marital issues. But it is a nice distraction from the mediocrity of 4 Minutes to Save the World. Oh I said it!
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