Happy Purim! (Welcome Back, Deadbeat)
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bodyetalPurim sameach! This Monday we went to our shul’s Purim party, and we wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Jewish holidays really only fall into two categories; solemn and sober observation, and FUCK YOU WE LIVED. Purim is firmly in the latter camp. I’m not going to explain the holiday, because Wikipedia will do a better job, but it’s fun. It’s awesome. We love our synagogue and we love our rabbi, who is a massive ally in every sense (plurality included).
We watched two schpiels—the first was the normal one, but the second was written by fifth graders from our synagogue’s childcare program. Our synagogue always has schpiels connected to modern day issues, and this year it was a big old fuck Trump, fuck Miller, fuck Musk, and most of all, fuck ICE. (The kids had Stephen Miller in the role of Haman. Their version talked a lot about immigrant rights and immigrant-Jew solidarity. I think the kids are alright.)
Crow&: Also, TW finally decided to show up. (We used singular pronouns up top, but we don’t know if it was me or TW writing that. Or both.)
TW: So maybe I haven’t been around in a substantial sense since last year.
Crow&: Which is very frustrating when someone is half of why we picked our major.
Anyway, Purim is over, but we try to carry its joy with us for as long as we can. Let’s see if it gets us through midterms. (And look at us, posting!)
Jewish holidays really only fall into two categories; solemn and sober observation, and FUCK YOU WE LIVED. Purim is firmly in the latter camp. I’m not going to explain the holiday, because Wikipedia will do a better job, but it’s fun. It’s awesome. We love our synagogue and we love our rabbi, who is a massive ally in every sense (plurality included).
We watched two schpiels—the first was the normal one, but the second was written by fifth graders from our synagogue’s childcare program. Our synagogue always has schpiels connected to modern day issues, and this year it was a big old fuck Trump, fuck Miller, fuck Musk, and most of all, fuck ICE. (The kids had Stephen Miller in the role of Haman. Their version talked a lot about immigrant rights and immigrant-Jew solidarity. I think the kids are alright.)
Crow&: Also, TW finally decided to show up. (We used singular pronouns up top, but we don’t know if it was me or TW writing that. Or both.)
TW: So maybe I haven’t been around in a substantial sense since last year.
Crow&: Which is very frustrating when someone is half of why we picked our major.
Anyway, Purim is over, but we try to carry its joy with us for as long as we can. Let’s see if it gets us through midterms. (And look at us, posting!)
