Purim Comes Alive!
A friend whose band, Panorama Jazz Band, often plays at synagogues around the city, recommended I check out Shir Chadash because he said the community there is vibrant and warm.
This is how Tin and I ended up there last Sunday for the reading of the Megillah – the story of Esther and her foolish husband (the King of Persia) and evil Haman who wanted to kill all Jews – which is celebrated in the story of Purim (a holiday where Tin said “we sell gifts to the needy” – you know what he meant.
Panorama provided the soundtrack for the reading, the children all dressed in costume and we danced and twirled noisemakers every time Haman’s evil name was mentioned in the story then we ate little cookies shaped like his ear (hamantaschen).
