PURIM 2011 - Venetian Masquerade Purim Ball

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PURIM 2011
Venetian Masquerade
Purim Ball

RSVP: http://www.tedallas.org/youngadults/enews/2.22.11/

Saturday, March 19
7 p.m. Arcodoro Pomodoro
100 Crescent Ct #140
Dallas, TX 75201
$20 per person for dinner & drinks

Celebrate a Venetian Masquerade Purim Ball with Temple Emanu-El Young Adults on Saturday, March 19th at 7 p.m. at Arcodoro Pomodoro.

Purim is the holiday of opposites. We change our appearances with costumes, change our drinking habits for the day, and create Purim shpiels in which we make fun of our rabbis, our tradition, and ourselves. Nothing is sacred on Purim. In spite of, or perhaps because of, our topsy-turvy silliness, Purim remains a holiday about social justice. The commandments to eat, drink, and be merry are accompanied by the mitzvah of matanot l’evyonim, giving tzedakah. In the Book of Esther, we read of sending gifts [mishloach manot] and presents to the poor [matanot l’evyonim] (Esther 9:22). In our giving matanot l’evyonim on Purim, and in the larger sense of pursuing social justice, we recognize the need for “an inversion in society, a turning upside down of the inequalities we see.”

Please bring a box of dry pasta to the Purim celebration for use as your gragger as well as for a donation to the Vickery Meadow Food Pantry.

Join us for a wonderful celebration, including a unique Megillah-reading experience that offers a creative multimedia re-telling of the Purim story.

Masks are encouraged...do as the Venetians do!

YouTube Video Contest

Create your own YouTube video sharing your version of the Purim story and win free admission to the event!

THE RULES

•Videos should be no more than 1-2 minutes


•Videos can include any element of the Purim story (the evil Haman, the beautiful Esther, etc.) or an encapsulated version of the whole story (Esther, a Jewish girl, is welcomed into the palace of Shushan as King Ahasuerus’s new wife, just in time to save Persia’s Jews from Haman’s evil plot to kill them all)


•Please submit your video to Rabbi Oren Hayon at [email protected] by March 4th
The top 5 videos will debut at the Purim Ball and winners will receive free admission!