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	Latke-Hamantasch Debate Becomes Verbal Food Fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hamantasch was supported by Jonathan Lipman (history and Asian studies), Kevin McCaffrey (communications office), and Susan Scotto (Russian).
		McCaffrey proclaimed the hamantasch's influence on jazz music, as exemplified by the triangular arrangement of many jazz trios and Thelonious Monk's song "Brilliant Corners." Scotto, sporting a hamantasch-shaped G-string over a bodysuit, argued in double entendre the suitability of hamantasch for a women's college, based on the pastry's shape.
		(She compared it to her triangular G-string.) Lipman related the hamantasch to similarly shaped Chinese characters meaning "humankind is one," arguing that this lofty linguistic heritage makes the hamantasch the more suitable model for a forward-looking society.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/970404/food.html (383 words)

	What is Hamantaschen ?
		Hamantasch is a cookie in Jewish cuisine recognizable for its 3-cornered shape.
		The hamantasch symbolizes the three-cornered hat that Haman wore.
		It is thought that they were originally called mon-taschen (Yiddish "poppy seed pockets") but modern legend has it that Haman, the villain of Purim, wore a triangular hat.
	www.jewishrecipes.org /jewish-foods/hamantaschen.html (143 words)

	S. WARD, ARE HAMANTASCHEN LIKE THE COMMUNION WAFER OR CHRISTMAS COOKIES? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The English-language sources surveyed are pretty much unanimous in describing the hamantasch as the main food for the holiday.
		The "levivah" is similar to the Hamantasch: a filling wrapped in dough; perhaps the sharing of Hamantaschen reflects a non-meat continuation of this traditional food.
		Comparing hamantaschen to Christmas trees and lights, we note that the hamantasch is far more intrinsic: it is the most traditional component of the sharing and eating of portions; it recalls both the Purim story and the directive to destroy the memory of Amalek, as well as reflecting the traditional happiness of the Purim season.
	www.du.edu /~sward/hamantaschen.html (4532 words)

	Dawn Food Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The hamantasch was baked in the synagogue's two convection ovens.
		The record hamantasch was assembled on folding tables, surrounded by caution tape to ensure that none of the drowsy volunteers stumbled.
		The corners of hamantasch, usually baked in daintier portions, signify the three forefathers Abraham, Yitzchok and Yaakov and it is also said to represent the hat that Haman wore.
	www.dawnfoods.com /news/releases/20020326_hamantasch.html (506 words)

	HAMANTASCH Recipe
		Traditional fillings are poppy seeds or prune, but they are made with many different flavors, including nut, date, apricot, or chocolate.Hamantaschen are generally made by rolling the dough thin, cutting it into circles (of various sizes), placing filling in the center, and folding in three sides.
		A Purim challah is prepared in the shape of a hamantasch with apricot or strawberry preserves spooned into the centre.
		A hamantasch (also spelled hamentash, homentasch, homentash, pluralized with -en) is a cookie in Jewish cuisine recognizable for its 3-cornered shape.
	xoomer.alice.it /recipe_2006/Hamantasch.html (1121 words)

	OU Kosher \| Dawn and the OU: 2 Perfect 'Matching Circles'
		This wasn’t any ordinary hamantasch, but one that weighed 738 pounds and measured at least 20 feet on all three sides.
		The giant hamantasch pastry contained 96 pounds of sugar, 84 pounds of allpurpose flour, 108 pounds of cake flour, four gallons of eggs and water, 60 pounds of margarine and 323
		The festive hamantasch was baked and assembled by a team of 100 volunteers using the synagogue’s two convection ovens and 130
	www.oukosher.org /index.php/articles/single_print/2747 (719 words)

	Profs Face Off on Latkes Versus Hamantaschen - The Tech
		A hamantasch was flipped to determine who would debate first.
		Kleitman recalled the hamantasch’s rich history as an item “baked and given and consumed for centuries.
		Asserting that a hamantasch, not an apple, fell upon Newton’s head and that Benjamin Franklin flew a hamantasch, not a kite, when discovering the phenomenon of electricity, Guth suggested that hamantaschen may provide ample protection as a heat shield for NASA’s WMAP satellite.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V126/N9/9latke.html (864 words)

	Who invented the Hamantasch? \| AskMoses.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Actually, the Hamantasch is one of two foods customarily consumed on Purim The other food is kreplach -- chicken or meat-filled pasta dough shaped into a triangle.
		The idea of a food whose contents are hidden fits right in to the Purim story, where the Jews' salvation came about without clear miracles.
		G-d was operating in the background, in concealment—like the jelly hidden in the belly of the Hamantasch —and saved the Jews by creating a series of events that could have been interpreted as coincidence.
	www.askmoses.com /article.html?h=530&o=119 (480 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I wandered downstairs and away from the noise to the brimming dessert table where trays of delicious homemade and bakery bought treats were being sold.
		One larger than life hamantasch caught my eye.
		The three-cornered hamantasch is meant to symbolize Haman’s hat, and this over-sized version comes close.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=5821 (587 words)

	Ramblings of a Conuly - NYTimes articles...
		There have been dissertations on "The Hamantasch in Shakespeare" and "The Hermeneutics of the Hamantasch;" feminist critiques that take both sides (Judith Shapiro, now president of Barnard College, suggested that Haman was a transvestite, "his aggressive machismo" overcompensation); and odes like this one by the linguist Edward Stankiewicz:
		On Tuesday, the debate began in the audience even before the speakers, in academic robes and funny hats, paraded with all their pomp and circumstance under the competing latke and hamantasch banners.
		Long before Rabbi David Rosenberg, the Hillel director, counted the postdebate ballots - 72 latke, 44 hamantasch, 2 disqualified for unexplained reasons - the winner was clear: people were searching the empty chafing dishes for scraps of burnt potato, while boxes of hamantaschen sat yet unopened.
	conuly.livejournal.com /953780.html (5933 words)

	Three sides and many flavors - The Boston Globe
		Another theory dates back to medieval Europe, where mohntasch (German for "poppy seed pocket"), a triangle-shaped pastry made from yeast dough and filled with poppy seeds, was very popular.
		The German word "mohn" (poppy seed) was so similar to the Hebrew pronunciation of Haman's name ("Hamohn") that the pastry was renamed hamantasch, meaning "Haman's pocket." The triangular shape came to represent Haman's pockets, in which he routinely carried bribes.
		Some Jewish scholars have said the three corners symbolize the three patriarchs -- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob -- whose righteousness saved their descendants from Haman's plot.
	boston.com /ae/food/articles/2004/03/03/three_sides_and_many_flavors (534 words)

	The Daily Gazette Online - Swarthmore College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Evan opened the debate with a strong argument for the superiority of the
		latke, as well as the depravity of the hamantasch.
		was borne from the miracle of Hanukkah, said Evan, while the hamantasch
	www.sccs.swarthmore.edu /org/daily/archive/spring_2003/20030402.html (1096 words)

	Purim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After it was decided that the book of Esther would be included in the books of the Bible, our sages said that it should be read publicly, twice, from a scroll - once on the eve of Purim and the second time on the day of Purim, at the end of the morning prayers (Shacharit).
		The Purim meal which includes wine and meat is celebrated with fun and merriment, songs and parodies, and a special Purim cake called Hamantasch (the pocket of Haman; in Hebrew, the ear of Haman).
		Purim gifts: This Mitzva is mentioned in the book of Esther (9,2,2) "an occasion for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor".
	www.ort.org /ort/edu/festivals/purim/p2.html (476 words)

	Purim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For the children's sake certain verses from the Book of Esther have been sung in chorus on Purim.
		During Purim, it is traditional to eat festive meals and to serve hamantasch cookies.
		A depiction of a Purim "Gragger", a noise-maker which is spun by hand, often made of wood and only used When Haman's Name is mentioned.
	purim.iqnaut.net (2430 words)

	Brief 2-23-2000
		President Yudof will moderate the lighthearted event in which faculty debate virtues of the latke (potato pancake, traditionally served on the holiday of Hanukkah) and hamantasch (3-cornered cookie, traditionally served on the festival of Purim).
		Defending the hamantasch will be Carol Chomsky, law, and David Sherman, microbiology.
		After presentations, the audience will be invited to sample latkes and hamantaschen.
	www1.umn.edu /urelate/brief/2000-02-23.html (1446 words)

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		We chanted the megillah for the elderly and homebound, and wondrously still managed to fulfill with gusto the most beloved mitzvah (religious precept) of the day: partying.
		When we turned onto 18th Avenue, our rented Lincoln, decorated with a six-foot high plastic hamantasch, was blaring a verse from the Book of Esther to the accompaniment of rock and roll.
		With only four-and-a-half hours before we would arise to go pray and start our activities again, we were in a rush to get home.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0398/bitter1.html (1226 words)

	Purim, Parody and Pilpul
		Such irreverence could of course be tolerated only at Purim time.
		To German Jewry we also owe the adoption of the Hamantasch, an adaptation of the German mahn-tash ("poppy-pocket") pastry, given a new meaning for the occasion.
		Our custom of sounding noisemakers at the mention of Haman's name is also a version of an old practice, which took on different forms through the generations.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/Shokel/880219_Purim_Parody.html (1005 words)

	Purim Hamantasch Hunt
		FIND 14 hamantaschen hiding in the castle.* CLICK on each one to spell out a SECRET MESSAGE.
		You get 10 POINTS for each hamantasch you FIND, and 10 MORE POINTS for finding the SECRET MESSAGE!
		Wordsearch, The Secret of the Dubner Maggid, Lots of Lots, Purim Periscope and Hamantasch History.
	www.yourpage.org /hamanhunt.html (69 words)

	University of Chicago Students, Faculty Debate Merits of Latkes, Hamantaschen
		As the law expert, Eugene Kontorovich, said, "What's great about the Latke-Hamantasch Debate is that at a time when so much academic inquiry is spent on esoteric and irrelevant matters, the debate focuses on the big questions."
		These and other profound ponderables have made the debate a sacred, if silly, annual tradition at the superserious University of Chicago since 1946, chronicled in a new anthology, "The Great Latke Hamantasch Debate" (University of Chicago Press).
		At last week's extravaganza, complete with costumes and a klezmer band, the book's editor, Ruth Fredman Cernea, welcomed a packed auditorium to "a night of exquisite absurdity."
	www.hillel.org /about/news/2005/nov/20051128_chicago.htm (151 words)

	Judaism.com - The Shapes of My Jewish Year By: Marji Gold-Vukson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The job descriptions in simple verse are easily understood.
		Ages 0-3 Preschoolers can explore the Jewish holidays with familiar square, rectangle, triangle ("a Purim hamantasch brimming over with sweet filling..."), and circle ("the shiny red apple I eat with honey on Rosh Hashanah").(12 Pages)
		We go to simchas; we wish each other "chag sameach"; but do we really understand the profound meaning of living in a steady state of joy?
	www.judaism.com /display.asp?etn=CBHBB (131 words)

	Harris Professor Colm O’Muircheartaigh at the 2005 University Latke Hamantasch Debate
		Harris Professor Colm O’Muircheartaigh at the 2005 University Latke Hamantasch Debate
		Colm O’Muircheartaigh, Harris School professor and statistician, was one of the three University faculty members debating the merits and faults of the latke and the hamantasch at the 2005 Great Latke Hamantasch Debate.
		O’Muircheartaigh pointed to statistical evidence to make his case for the latke, as noted by a New York Times article, “Such Sound and Fury!
	harrisschool.uchicago.edu /News/press-releases/colm-latke.asp (137 words)

	Pre-PURIM UALBANY 5764- Persian Dinner, Holiday Packets
		We began with a Tuesday Learning Night on Talmudical Insights into the Megillah with the first round of Holiday Packets done that night.
		On the next night, Wed, we did some Hamantasch Baking, and completed packing the Packets.
		Each packet has a delicious Hamantasch cookie, a mini-noisemaker and a candy.
	www.shabboshouse.com /Holidays/Purim/Purim5764/PrePurim/PrePurim.htm (313 words)

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		The redheaded boy gazes up from a pew at College Park Baptist Church....
		Chicago Tribune A synagogue hoped to bake its way into the record books with a 738.5 pound, 20-foot-wide hamantasch, a confect...
		Chicago Tribune Moderate Baptists in Texas have pledged $1 million to help Southern Baptist missionaries who decline to endors...
	www.nychinatown.com /Society(life).htm (443 words)

	Pre Purim Hamantasch Baking at Shabbos House - 5765/2005
		Pre Purim Hamantasch Baking at Shabbos House - 5765/2005
		and within the Hamantasch" on concealment in the Purim story and in our everyday lives, we all enjoyed baking a variety of Hamantaschen.
		Dan Small's style of a more concealed Hamantash, fits better with the theme of the learning night...
	www.shabboshouse.com /Holidays/Purim/5765/HamantashBaking/PrePurimBaking.htm (178 words)

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