Imagine Halloween, New Year's Eve and St. Patrick's Day rolled-into-one ...
...
and, you've got some idea of PURIM !
Here are two public Purim events, courtesy of LongIsland.com (there are most likely others, and if you know of them please post info about them in this thread).
PURIM PARADE -- Bay Shore
On Sunday, March 8, 2009 from 9:30am-11am at Sinai Reform Temple at 39 Brentwood Road in Bay Shore join the parade. OPEN HOUSE - ALL ARE WELCOME ~ Dress in your favorite costume and march in our Purim Parade, children's activities and lots of fun for all. For more information call 631-665-5755.
PURIM CARNIVAL -- COMMACK
On Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 1pm at the Suffolk Youth Jewish Community Center at 74 Hauppauge Road in Commack, join the fun at the carnival! Free to the community. Enjoy carnival booths, Purim shows, snacks and rides, $1 each. For more information call 631-462-9800 x105.
The one-day rabbinic Jewish Festival of Purim (PU-rim, PAWR-im), a very merry celebration of the events in the Megillah (m’-GILL-uh) Hadassah (Book of Esther), begins this year at sundown on Monday, March 9 on the civil calendar, and with its costumes, noisemakers, food baskets, Hamantaschen cookies, a festive meal and carnivals, Purim is a favorite Jewish holiday for children and adults alike, especially for those with a great thirst because Purim requires more alcohol consumption than does St. Paddy’s Day.
The custom is for Jews to take a goodly drink (and here I share the Hassidic love of bourbon, my favorite being Rebel Yell, which is generally unavailable north of the Mason-Dixon line) every time the name of Haman, the evil one, is mentioned when the Book of Esther is read from the Bima (the raised platform in the front of the sanctuary in the synagogue) until one can not distinguish between the name Haman and the name Mordecai. (The actual Talmudic instruction is that "a person is required to drink until he cannot tell the difference between 'cursed be Haman' and 'blessed be Mordecai'", though opinions differ as to exactly how drunk that is.)
Ashkenazi (central and eastern European) Jews eat Hamantaschen (HAH-men-TAH-shen), tri-cornered fruit-filled cookies in reminiscence that the Persian Prime Minister, the evil Haman, was supposed to have worn a tri-cornered hat.
This Hamantaschen recipe won the 2000 Minnesota State Fair Blue Ribbon!
Here's what you will need:
Cookie dough:
3 eggs
4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cup oil
1/3 cup orange juice
Filling:
3 tablespoons orange filling (canned prune and apricot fillings were used for the State Fair entries).
Traditional fillings are poppy seed and prune. Apricot, apple butter, pineapple preserves, and cherry pie filling all work quite well.
For a special HONEY-NUT FILLING:
1 lb. of honey
1 lb. ground or chopped walnuts
Heat honey to boil, then stir in walnuts.
Oil a platter or board, pour walnut-honey mixture on platter or board and let cool.
When cool, cut into triangles (approximately 1" per side).
Here's what you need to do:
1. With an electric beater, beat eggs, adding sugar gradually.
2. Add oil and beat well.
3. Combine flour and baking powder; add to egg mixture alternatively with the orange juice. Mix well. You may need to add a drop more juice if you think it is too dry or a little more flour if you feel it is too loose.
4. Divide dough and wrap in waxed paper.
5. Chill dough for several hours.
6. Remove dough from refrigerator. On a lightly floured surface, using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out dough to 1/8th inch thickness and cut into 2-1/2 inch circles.
7. Place a rounded teaspoon of filling or honey-nut triangles in each center.
8. Pinch edges together firmly to form a closed triangle over the filling.
9. Place on a non-stick sprayed cookie sheet.
Bake in a 350-degree oven for 18-20 minutes or until golden. Cool on a rack.
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