This truck blarring the music is part of the Biblical requirement on Purim to collect money for religious purposes. As a result everyone is fundraising like crazy, actually, everyone is begging, pushing cups in your face and demanding that you give money. One Ultra had a handful of dollars and Vardit said he was part of the sect which believes that Israeli shekels are bogus and that it is sacreligious to touch them. It's complicated, I will try to explain at another time.
The street scenes all felt like something out of Fiddler on the Roof or Yentl. Here the two Ulta's on the left and right are holding up a "Rabbi" who was too drunk to walk by himself. When the old man saw me with the video he got upset and shoulded something in Hebrew but the joy of the holiday must have washed over him, because his anger didn't last very long.
These guys were so excited to see me they started shouting, "You Tube" and wanted to know where on the Web they could watch the video. They were especially excited to know I was from Berkeley and told me they knew the words to God Bless America, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time to see their complete performance.
This last video is pretty werid. A cute blonde girl, kind of a hippy Queen Esther showed up with a guy in a tie-dye shirt with a peace symbol who said he was from Boston. Behind them in the courtyard was a really anger dude who was drunk and just kept banging on the table over and over shouting something in Hebrew.
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