Israel – In line with the Halacah when it was a walled city, Jerusalem begin its Purim celebrations on Thursday night and Friday, a day later than the rest of the Jewish world, that celebrated on Wednesday evening and Thursday.
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Purim, the holiday of Megilla reading, joy, song, dance, food, drink and costumes, is actually one of the most sacred and meaningful dates on the Jewish calendar, on a par with Yom Kippur.
See below photo essay, seen through the lenses of Flash 90, EPA.
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Very nice, it’s Purim, so dressing up , dancing, exuberance, drinking, cartwheels and all, perfectly fine.
Grown men being dragged in the street in a drunken stupor. Real classy.
Wow. Those are some seriously fabulous photos, really top-notch. Kudos to the photographer(s)!
yes #1 , very nice indeed. teach little kids to burn the flag. teach them at a very early age to hate. such ahavas yisroel. they disgust me.
These photos are beautiful but VIN, why ruin it with the photo of the NK? Why even post that?
That wasn’t a Taliban woman! It’s Purim, after all.
The flag burning is a disgrace.
The photos are beautiful until you get to the photo of some people burning the Israeli flag. Then, you just want to cry. Have we learned nothing? The miracle came on Purim after :Laych, knos es kol haYehudim.
With all that is going on in the world today – this is their idea of fun?
Heartbreaking to me.
Ditto to those above. Great set of photos but wish the flag burning was left out (definitely not in the spirit of Purim). Also, sure that was a guy doing a flip and not someone about to smack their face into the concrete???
With but a few exceptions the photos show agreat deal of inebriation and unspiritual drunkenness, barely distinguishable from St. Patricks day parades (but for the costumes) . .as for the burning of the Israeli flag; despicable ingratitude and the complete opposite of everything the Nees of Purim stands for. . Kudos to the VIN for including it in the photo essay. For those who would rather not see it, don’t ask the photographers to skip over it but rather ask the responsible Chasidishe Rebbes to stop it . . (good luck with that!).