Purim is a “Jewish” holiday, where everyone is happy! I feel that purim is a very memorable holiday, and here is the story of why I think that (the story of Purim)…………..

…………One day, in a far away land called Shushan, there lived a king, king Achashverosh. King Achashverosh did not want to rule his kingdom alone, so he set along to find a partner for he would spend the rest of his life with. He did find a lovely woman who he wished to marry. He, well, married her, and they lived happily ever after…but thats not the THE END.

     King Achashverosh liked to show his beautiful wife off, so he had always planned a bunch of parties and banquets, for he would show off his wife, Vashti. But one day, his lovely Vashti did not want to put up with this “oh Vashti, come here” and all these other orders from the king, for she was the queen, and she can do her own thing. So she refused to go to the next party King A. would have. King A. grew very angry and huffy, and banished (not so) Queen Vashti out of his kingdom.

After Queen Vashti left, King A. felt very lonely, and needed someone to fulfill his loneliness.  Since his first marriage didn’t go so well, he chose to let his advisor, Haman (rash rash rash) to pick out a woman who was the right person for him, for Haman knew king A. very well. Haman picked out a woman who he thought was perfect for King A. Her name is Esther.

Meanwhile, Haman had another plan. Haman wanted to kill the jews, because when Haman was walking by, Mordechi (Esther’s Uncle) did not bow, for he was a jew, and jews only bow down to G!D. Haman got furious, and decided he wanted to kill all of the jews.

(this is me talking) “Lets see what King A has to say about that”.

Unlike Vashti, Esther would go to all of his parties, and all of his banquets, and so on, but there was one detail about this young woman that king A. did not know. Esther wasJewish! Esther knew that Vashti was kicked out of the kingdom because she disobeyed the king, so Esther did not want to go through the trouble Vashti did.

Esther felt so bad, for her uncle had told her not to reveal she is Jewish, so she fasted for three days, thinking about a way to tell king A.in a nice and pleasant way. Queen Esther told the king to set up a banquet, and Esther would tell the king about her secret.

On the day of the lovely banquet, Esther was dressed up all nice, and she had straitened her hair, and so on. Esther was very nervous. She had butterflies in her stomach. Esther was not looking forward to this!

When the king announced that the banquet had started, and that Queen Esther had something to say, Esther started shaking. She took a deep breath, and let it out, and then walked up to where the king was standing, eying her uncle. “I, I am a Jew, and I know I’m not supposed to be saying this, but I had to, because Haman wants to kill all of my people, and nobody did anything wrong. But King A, you won’t kill me, or my people will you?” asked Esther. “No way! I had nothing to do with this, in fact I don’t even know how this came up!” explained King A, starring at Haman. “I have not approved of this,” king A. said. Achashverosh said that instead of Mordichi being hung, Haman shall be hung!

Basically, Mordichi saves the day, and the Jews are the winner! That is the story of Purim! 

Here is a picture of a boy dressing up as Pooh Bear for Purim!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/potashman/111649781/

I hope you agree with me! If there are any other posts you think are really good, comment, prove me wrong! Hee hee!

If I had to pick someone to be president, I would pick Morah Eta. You might ask why, or what would she do good for our country. That’s what I will be explaining to you in this blog post. Read on to find out.

I believe that Morah Eta would be good for our country, because she is always on the spot, doing what she needs to do, when she needs to do it. She is great with finances (is always guiding student council to what snacks or cool school supplies for the school store to buy in a good price range) , a very fair person (if someone gets one thing, she always gives the other person one of whatever it is too), great with other people and children (she teaches in a very fun, kid-friendly way), and is a very fun person to be with (if you’ve met her you know what I mean!).

      I forgot to mention that Morah Eta is the vice principal of our school. What does she need to do as vice principal of our school, you might ask? Well, she has middle school Mitzvah projects she has to be at, she is the head of student council, she has to be at meetings, she has kindergarten hebrew to teach, etc.

Some people think that they wouldn’t be able to do all of that in only a few days. This proves that Morah Eta is proactive, and gets to things quickly, like a president should. Therefore, I think she would make an excellent president.