If we told you Israel’s ice dance champions at the Vancouver Olympics skated to “Hava Nagila” in vaguely Fiddler on the Roof-ish costumes complete with kippa (skull cap) and babushka would you believe us? Well, don’t take our word for it, see the video on Youtube…

Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky

You might ask what this has to do with the Jewish holiday Purim, which we have promised to explain in this post. Well, nothing actually, except perhaps the goofiness factor…

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