Three things you didn't know about Purim

1. Rabbi Zahavit Shalev: Drinking on Purim

Alcohol features heavily in the Megillah, and in the celebration of Purim. How does Judaism feel about wine and are we really supposed to get totally sloshed on Purim?

2. Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg: High speed dromedaries

Postal services in the world of the Megillah 

3. David Conway: Esther revealed

250 years ago the Sephardi congregations of Amsterdam and London commissioned the first Hebrew oratorio, ''T'shuat Yisrael al yedey Ester''. David Conway tells the curious story of how it came to be written, how it got lost, how it turned up in Cambridge University Library and how it's getting its first British performance this Sunday, just in time for Purim......

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