Word: hamantashen
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Beer, pizza, and hamantashen don’t usually scream “ragefest.” But this killer combo of snacks and booze attracted plenty of students to Hillel Saturday night to celebrate Purimpalooza, Hillel’s contemporary take on a traditional Jewish holiday. For the gentiles among you, Purim looks like Halloween meets Mardi Gras with a Jewish back story. The holiday commemorates the failure of the evil Haman’s plot to destroy all the Jews, which provides the perfect excuse to get smashed while sporting ridiculous outfits. Campus Rabbi and Orthodox Rabbinic Advisor...
...inner-city crime, and civil war in Latin America,” Pinker said, his voice drowned out as the room erupted in guffaws. He called on the latke lovers to sign his petition calling on Harvard and MIT to divest from companies that buy or sell poppy seed hamantashen...
Pinker also lauded latkes, which he said contained more calories than hamantashen, as being essential to evolutionary adaptation...
...times of famine, those of our ancestors who chose latkes and sour cream over hamantashen were more likely to survive and reproduce,” the potato-promoter said...
...rebuttal, Dershowitz said that today’s problem is one of obesity, not starvation. However, in response to an audience member who pointed out that latkes can be versatile in their place on the menu, while hamantashen are restricted to being desserts, Dershowitz reverted to espousing the tenet of carpe diem...