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In the Bus/Purim Eve:
\\n\\n\\nLittle kids in costume giggle happily
\\nreal flower children
\\nand Margalit Tzan\\u2019ani sings
\\n\\u201cThe Honey in the Groove\\u201d
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Today, host Marcela Sulak takes an unusual approach to Purim, reading excerpts from Tikva Levi\\u2019s Purim Sequence, translated by Ammiel Alcalay.
\\nWe intersperse the first parts of Levi\'s\\xa0poem, a Purim bus journey, with excerpts from Itzik Manger\\u2019s \'Megillah\' \\u2014 a retelling of the Purim story in the Book of Esther.
\\nTikva Levi was a feminist activist Mizrahi Jew, born in Ashkelon of Iraqi parents. She died in 2012, at the age of 52. Her life was devoted to the educational rights of Mizrahi Jews in Israel.
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\\nText:
\\nKeys to the Garden. New Israeli Writing. Edited by Ammiel Alcalay. City Lights Books, 1996.
\\nMusic:
\\nSongs of the Megilla\\xa0-\\xa0Itzik Manger
\\nNafas - Rabih Abou-Khalil
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