As I mentioned previously, tonight was Purim, the Jewish Festival of Lots. For a full description, Wikipedia, as usual, has a pretty good description: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim

There are quite a few traditions around the holiday. The main one’s important to me…

Just read this on an old friend’s blog (Hi Jason!), and I thought it was a fascinating way to do social justice as part of Purim (matanot l’evyonim (I.e. gifts to the poor)) and fulfill grogger fun at the same time:

After…