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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Haman

The Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamedan, Iran. (CC BY-SA Philippe Chavin/Wikipedia)
February 21, 2020, 7:35 am
US ‘troubled’ by report Iranians want to raze tomb of Mordechai and Esther
Militant student group in Hamadan proposes turning Purim heroes’ tomb into Palestinian consulate in response to Trump plan; local official says site protected
By ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo during a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 20, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 22, 2019, 4:46 pm
Pompeo says Trump may have been sent by God to save Jews from Iran
Asked by Christian media about current relevance of Purim story, US secretary of state says he is ‘confident that the Lord is at work here’
By ToI Staff
David Seidenberg
March 1, 2018, 2:36 pm
David Seidenberg
The next pageant should select a new Haman
Contemporary politics remind us to stifle any knee-jerk association between evil and ugly
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on March 8, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 14, 2017, 2:37 am
Netanyahu hits back at Iran FM over accusation of ‘distorting’ Purim history
PM says Zarif speaks of tolerance, saving Jews throughout history while regime ‘hangs gays, jails journalists,’ calls for Israel’s destruction
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaking at the 53rd Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, February 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Christof Stache)
March 12, 2017, 11:06 pm
Iranian FM chides Netanyahu over Purim spiel, says Persians saved the Jews 3 times
Zarif accuses PM of spreading ‘bigoted lies’ by saying that modern Iran, like ancient Persia, is bent on annihilating the Jewish people
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Illustrative image of Holocaust survivors in a hospital ward after liberation, circa April 29 - May 1945, in Dachau, Germany (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Francis Robert Arzt)
March 10, 2017, 10:22 pm
The newly discovered post-WWII Purim poem that comforted survivors
Recovering in a displaced persons hospital ward, Yisroel Meir Schwartz references Nazi leaders in traditional holiday verse composed to soothe fellow patients
By Cathryn J. Prince
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Moscow on March 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Pavel Golovkin)
March 10, 2017, 5:51 am
Rejecting Purim spiel, Putin tells Netanyahu to stop dwelling on past
After PM tries to sell concerns over Iran based on holiday tale, Russian president says ‘we now live in a different world’
By ToI Staff and AFP
A Purim effigy that appeared to be of an African-American man drew widespread condemnation in Spring Valley, New York, March 24, 2016. (Screen capture: News 12)
March 25, 2016, 11:02 pm
Black-faced Purim effigy in NY county draws condemnation
Local Jewish Federation, board of rabbis issue joint statement decrying offensive ‘hanging of Haman’ practice
By JTA
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) shakes hands with then US secretary of state John Kerry (left) in Geneva, January 14, 2015. (AFP/Rick Wilking/Pool)
April 1, 2015, 5:37 pm
Riskin changes tack: Now says Iran, not Obama, is Haman
Rabbi clarifies: ‘My problem is that the president seems to be making a deal that is very problematic with that Haman, and leaving Israel without a protector’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rabbi Shlomo Riskin speaking at the Lincoln Square Synagogue. (screen capture: YouTube/JBS)
March 31, 2015, 12:23 am
Prominent American-Israeli rabbi compares Obama to Haman
Shlomo Riskin of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc says US president is like villain of Purim story, Netanyahu akin to Mordechai
By JTA and ToI Staff
Soldiers at the shooting range. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 16, 2014, 6:33 am
Soldiers trade groggers for rifles
Religious brigade filmed opening fire as Purim villain’s name is read out, in riff on tradition
By ToI Staff
Yonatan Gordon
March 6, 2014, 6:05 pm
Yonatan Gordon
Purim replacement for Newsweek’s discontinued ‘Rabbis List’
Who knew Kabbalah has a funny side?
Purim offers some serious reasons for laughter. (Yoel Ben-Avraham/Creative Commons via JTA)
February 23, 2013, 2:59 am
A close call with genocide? That’s hilarious!
With elements of dark humor and screwball comedy, the Purim story is also a bit of a joke
By Dasee Berkowitz
Anti Facebook graffiti on a wall in Jerusalem based on the Facebook 'like' sign. May 26, 2011.(Sophie Gordon / Flash90)
February 20, 2013, 12:43 pm
Man arrested for threatening Yair Lapid on Facebook
Social network user calls for hanging Yesh Atid party head and other ‘leftist enemies,’ just like Haman in ancient Persia
By Asher Zeiger
Shalom Schwartzbard (photo credit: etrelibre.over-blog/Wikipedia Commons)
January 19, 2013, 5:50 am
Did Shalom Schwartzbard avenge the pogroms or kill the wrong man?
Israeli retiree Tamar Dagan hopes to learn more about her controversial relative, whose sensational murder trial riveted 1920s Paris
By Hillel Kuttler
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