Question of the Week: How many times does God's
name appear in Megillat Esther?

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The story of Purim, according to students in Linda lein's
second-grade Sunday school class at Temple Emanu-EL

the king [Aha-
sueurus] had
another
queen, I can't
remember her
name, and
he wanted
her to dance
but she
refused. She
was locked
up and never
Linda Klein's second grade class: Bottom, Eric Pulleyblank, Jacob seen again.
Malkin, Micah Katz, Chelsea Rosenbaum, Jaime Bean, Olivia
[At Sunday
Roth, Hanna Sosin; top, David Wachler, Kevin Finegood, Jessi-
school,]
we're
ca Strauss, Celeste Schreier, Emily Zussman, Stephanie Soper-
going to
stein, Paige Tomak, Chase Garland, Alex Schrag.
bring three
pieces of
food to give [in mishloach manot]
Elizabeth Applebaum
to people, stuff like cake." (One
AppleTree Editor
boy said, "How about some
CHASE GORLAND, 7, of Pleas- healthy stuff?" Another responded,
"Well, you can't give them just hot-
ant Ridge: "One day there was a
'
fudge
cream puffs. That's what I
girl named Esther and she lived
had for dinner.")
with her cousin named Mordechai.

Both were Jewish. The way Esther
became queen was that all the
king's soldiers went from house to
house looking for someone to be
i the king's wife. Each got to go to
the palace to see the king; every
day there was a new girl, but
none satisfied him."

DAVID WACHLER, 7, of Hunt-

ington Woods: But before that,

JACOB MALKIN, 8, of Oak

Park: "Esther was pretty — by the
way I'm kidding. No, I'm not. An y
way, on Purim we eat those thin-
gies 2-- what do you call them?
Oh, yeah, hamantashen."

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CELESTE SCHREIER, 7, of Hunt

ington Woods: "When they were
playing a card game, this guy
named Haman interrupted and the

king said, 'Do whatever you want
[with the Jews].' He didn't care."

EMILY ZUSSMAN, 7, of Hunt

ington Woods: "The Jews were
going to get killed by Haman."

OLMA ROTH, 7, of Huntington

Woods: "Haman was going to kill
all theJews just because
Mordechai wouldn't bow to him."

Haman and asked how he should
repay him, Haman thought he was
talking about him; and they were
talking about Mordechai, and he
got to ride on a horse in the king's
clothes and Haman had to take
him around the city."

PAIGE TOMAK, 8, of Hunting-
ton Woods: "At the end, instead
of killing the Jews they killed the
Jews' enemy, Haman."

ERIC PULLEYBLANK, 7, of

Birmingham: "So the king% wife
[Esther] wanted to meet with the
king at like a brunch or something.
When they were having the last
piece of dessert, she said, 'Have
another, and then I'll tell you.' The
king had the last piece of dessert,
then Esther said, 'Save our people
from our enemy, Haman. -

JAIME BEAN, 7, of Huntington

Woods: "Then they were having a
little tiny feast and then they said,
'We have to say something,' so
they had another feast and then
they told the king [what Haman
was planning]."

A few more facts about Purim
and enemies of the Jews ...

SAM GENETTI, 7, of Huntington

Woods: "Also, about Hitler: When
he was trying to kill all the Jews,
he made a chart with all the days
on it and he threw a stone and it
landed on the 13th, so that was
the day he decided to kill the
Jews."

ALEX SCHARG, 7, of Hunting-

ton Woods: "On Purim, we eat
these cookies called lemontashen,
and that's it."

MATTHEW KAISER, 7, of Hunt-
-I ington Woods: When we hear
Hqman's name [at the reading of
JESSICA STRAUSS, 7, of Lake
Megillat
Esther], we make noise."
Orion: "Two of the king's servants
("With maracas?" one girl called.
were going to kill the king. So
"No! With greggers," another
Mordechai told the king about it,
said. "Why, did a guy named
and then they were hanged up on
Greg invent them?")
a tree. When he [the king] went to

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3/17
2000