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Avishai D. Don’s column on Feb. 24, 2010, “Sex, Love, and Purim,” is fraught not only with embarrassing and unconcealed ignorance of the topics on which he dilates, but also, more inexcusably, with a disdain for religious traditions that do not cleave with his poorly elucidated and insufficiently coherent view of “sexual ethics...
...Jewish calendar features a holiday this week that has garnered the unofficial moniker of the Jewish “get-drunk-off-your-ass” day. To properly commemorate Purim, a day-long celebration of the Jews’ escape from destruction by the hands of a wicked vizier in ancient Persia, the Talmud decrees that one must so wasted that “he cannot distinguish between ‘cursed is Haman [the villain]’ and ‘blessed is Mordechai [the hero].’” Because a literal reading...
...acted upon in the proper place and context, and Catholic ethicists ought to emphasize this aspect of their thought if they seek to promote abstinence in a relevant fashion. When one directs his energy towards something meaningful, whether he utilizes intercourse or, in the case of Purim, beer and wine, the spiritual heights he experiences can only be exalted. As long as, to cite Rabbi Isserles, he is doing it for the sake of Heaven...
Tonight’s bash will feature a reading of the Purim story, multimedia slide show, music, and of course noshing (Yiddish: social eating). Students will be given the opportunity to fulfill the mitzvahs (Hebrew: commandment, connotation—good deed) of Purim which include giving gifts to friends, giving charity to the poor, and hearing the story of Purim...
...Other Purim activities on campus include Hillel’s Purim Palooza (9-11pm Beren Hall, Harvard Hillel) and Chabad’s brunches around campus...