San Francisco – Mark Zuckerberg Marks Purim With Hamantaschen

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    San Francisco – Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined Jews all over the world last week in celebrating Purim.

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    Zuckerberg posted a photo on Facebook on Friday of him and his wife, Priscilla Chan, in the kitchen with the caption: “Baking hamantashen. Chag sameah!”

    In response to a question about the link to the holiday, Zuckerberg wrote that Haman “was the villain of Purim and he famously had a three-cornered hat. These symbolize the victory over him.”

    Though the Jewish-born Zuckerberg once called himself an atheist, in recent years he has increasingly embraced Jewish traditions and sought to share them with his two girls, Max and August.

    Last September Zuckerberg posted on Facebook that he had given his oldest daughter a family heirloom kiddush cup that they use to celebrate Shabbat. And on Yom Kippur last year, he wrote: “For those I hurt this year, I ask forgiveness and I will try to be better. For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better.”


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    StevenWright
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    StevenWright
    6 years ago

    And this is newsworthy exactly why?

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    6 years ago

    Liberal with his shiksa wife. He opposes walls to protect but has walls around his mansion on land he stole from native hawaiians.

    bsnow
    bsnow
    6 years ago

    The guy is married to a shiksah. He has condemned his soul!

    grandbear
    grandbear
    6 years ago

    He’s the typical american jew , today.Never been taught a jewish education ,and knows almost nothing about his family’s religion He knows purim we eat hamantaschen and passover we eat matzah balls .yom kippur we fast ,just a bit.and that’s about all of his jewish upbringing. OH and has to be a liberal in politics .

    pinny
    pinny
    6 years ago

    pintele yid awakens

    AuthenticSatmar
    AuthenticSatmar
    6 years ago

    The fact that such a liberal leaning jew, married to a non jew, yet still finds the time to celebrate key holidays should be an inspiration to those that live a frum life how much more meaningful their traditions should be.
    Instead of knocking him, we should be learning from it. איזהו חכם הלומד מכל אדם.
    We have no right to judge him, he wasn’t raised any differently. He has embraced what little of being Jewish he knows.
    The reason this is news, is that most liberal Jews are trying to distance themselves from the religion, not so openly embracing it.
    He also once wrote that he says המלאך with his kids every night.

    6 years ago

    To #2 and #3, and the rest of the holier than thou crowd:- Even though Zuckerberg married a shiksa, he is still a Jew. When the Nazis came for us, they could have cared less how observant someone was. Therefore, why don’t you keep your pompous, asinine remarks to yourself?