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Re: Purimish fun
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lugnet.people
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Thu, 23 Mar 2000 06:52:58 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Shiri Dori writes:
> [snip]
> It is! It's one of my favorite (jewish) holidays (1) and it has a lot in
> common with Halloween.
> There IS a story behind it but I have no time to tell it now; I'll just tell
> you what we do:
> a. dress up; b. make "haman's ears", cool and weird triangular dough with
> filling (aka Hammotasch for American Jews).
that would be hamentashen, or however you would pronounce it.
(interesting story my father recently told me: hamentashen have absolutely
nothing to do with haman! the h was added later, and it was originaly said-
ammentashen, which, in german, means "packet of seeds", because most of them
used to be filled with poppy seeds. nowadays, it's mostly fruit)
> (2) Er, well, not anymore... It used to be a "donate to the poor" thing in
> older times, but nowadays it's a "bring em to class and have a random swap"
> thing... really fun!
so this is what "shalach manos" is like in Israel?
(my cousins in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv never informed me of that)
here in Philadelphia, we just exchange them between friends and families.
Jonathan Gevaryahu
jgevaryahu(remove)@hotmail.com
hebrew name:
yonatan gvar-yahu
p.s. there is no easy way of putting hebrew in nntp posts (yes, I read your
[shiri] posts in .off-topic, and I know why it wont work)
the only good way is to make an image file and link it, or make a page and link
it, because there is no language or font header in usenet posts, so the browser
just displays it as garbage
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| (...) Actually, it *will* work in NNTP posts -- provided that your newsreader sets the message headers appropriately[1] when you post, and that other peoples' newsreaders interpret these headers similarly when they display them. It just won't (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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| (...) It is! It's one of my favorite (jewish) holidays (1) and it has a lot in common with Halloween. There IS a story behind it but I have no time to tell it now; I'll just tell you what we do: a. dress up; b. make "haman's ears", cool and weird (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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