Purim is a festival where people dress up in silly costumes and celebrate a period in Jewish history where we triumphed over our enemies in ancient Persia.
My Yeshiva's Purim Celebrations:
The four elements - air, earth, water, and fire
Me and Simi Peters, who teaches Navi class
My roommate Chava with a blue wig
During the Purim shpiel, Rav Sperling was impersonated
Kareen dressed up as a warrior
Simi Peters and Linda Derovan do a sketch about their students
Dancing, with the Rabbanite in a black wig in the middle
This is a traditional Morrocan outfit
Alison as a soldier
Aviva
Dancing
Things got a little wild and crazy
Chava dances
Me and the Rabbanite
Rav Yehuda Henkin in his house (on the right). He is a huge pusak and his wife is the head of my yeshiva
Rabbanite Henkin (in the hat with the candy) sits with her yeshiva girls
The man in the funny hat is Rav Sperling, who teaches Halacha class
Purim in Mea Sha'arim:
These photos are all pretty blurry, because the Hasidim in this neighborhood don't like being photographed and most of the pictures I took were taken as fast as possible while they weren't looking.
A Hasid with his two girls
Hasidim in their good clothing for Purim
in costume
Watching the action below from the balcony
Kids on their balcony
A lot of guys were wearing fezzes. I don't know what was up with that. Maybe fezzes were just really easy to get.
A Hasid carrying a gift basket of food (called mishloach manot)
A mishloach manot basket
Wearing a fake beard
The guy in the black coat and black hat is actually a kid with a fake beard. The guy with the cap is really an adult
A kid begging
A family in costume (except for the father and mother, who are not technically in costume)
Crowds on the streets, going to feasts
Bride costumes were a popular choice for young Hasidic girls
A bride with a lot of makeup
I don't know what was up with this car
Don't know what was up with this car either. Collecting tzedakah probably
I don't know what this girl was doing. Trying to escape, maybe
A clown
A Toledot Yisrael Hasid (not in costume)
A bunch of yeshiva boys spray their hair
Guys in costume
Husband and wife
The streets were really crowded
In a dress
A family going for a stroll
A mother and her children
Saying hi
A Ger Hasid
Sorry for the sun glare
Girls in costume
The kid is dressed in graduation robes
A passer-by
A crowd
At the busstop
A kid dressed up as a Toledot Yisrael Hasid
Again, the fezzes. I don't know, either.
A woman hides her face from my camera
Horns!
A kid
Another kid
Kids and their mothers
More kids, buying something
Kids
A king!
A Hasid reads the posters
He is wearing a false witch nose
He sprayed his hair orange
I hope he's not pointing at me
A wig
Okay, what's with the Shriner thing?
Running somewhere
Fezzes must have been cheap
Smiley faces!
Going for a stroll
A Hasid pulling a stroller up the stairs
Self-explanatory
The kid with a table on his head is dressed up as "Shabbat"
Talking in the street (not in costume)
Thinking, apparently
He turned away when he saw me taking a picture of him
Playing a hippe BT. If you didn't get that joke, I'm not going to explain it
What is this? When did I take it? What's going on?
Hi Gandalf the Wizard! Or a Hasidic Rebbe. Either one.
Looking out
The beggars were in costume, knowing that on Purim people are obligated to give charity
