# Once again, the Steinhardts bake Hamantaschen! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797 "2009-03-09T02:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/21 "2009-03-09T19:03:54Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > Why is that one boy trying to strangle another girl in one of the pictures? A Purim tradition that I had never heard of? No, it’s a teenager tradition that, I suspect, crosses all cultures and religions. > [@](#): > > Maybe I’ll pull out my Jewish cookbook and make some of those for our Religious Exploration class at Church on Sunday. Purim is tomorrow, right? It starts tonight and goes until tomorrow night. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/22 "2009-03-09T21:58:34Z")
Is it true that “the English translation of the letters on the dreidl spells out T-U-M-S”? > **[Latke–Hamantash Debate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Latke-Hamantash_Debate)** > > The Latke–Hamantash Debate is a deliberately humorous academic debate about the relative merits and meanings of these two items of Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. The debate originated at the University of Chicago in 1946 and has since been held annually. Subsequent debates have taken place at several other universities. Participants in the debate, held within the format of a symposium, have included past University of Chicago president Hanna Holborn Gray, philosopher Martha Nussbaum, former Council A ... “Criminal lawyer Professor Alan Dershowitz, during a debate at Harvard University, accused the latke of increasing the United States’ dependence on oil.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/23 "2009-03-09T22:41:57Z")
What’s the yellow filling that leake out onto the pan? Your pictures make me hungry. Of course, I’m fasting right now, so anything up to and including corrugated cardboard makes me hungry. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/24 "2009-03-10T17:48:17Z")
I always know that when the Steinhardts bake Hamantaschen, all is right with the world! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/25 "2009-03-10T18:56:31Z")
**zev** , no pictures of Lisa this year? 🙂 The kids look so great! ---
**Author:** ![DaphneBlack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daphneblack/32/5389_2.png) [@DaphneBlack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaphneBlack)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/26 "2009-03-10T19:48:31Z")
Mmm, Hamentaschen. Purim sameach, Zev and mishpocha! ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797/27 "2009-03-10T23:56:39Z")
Tzivya looks like an angel in that last picture! She’s getting so grown up! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-again-the-steinhardts-bake-hamantaschen/488797.md?page=1)