ד-פּאַקס<p>"Five thousand years ago, a nomadic monotheist called Abram wandered out of the Sumerian city of Ur and headed to rural Canaan, inventing <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judaism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Judaism</span></a> and changing the world forever. Around 2,500 years ago a crypto-Jewish queen managed to save the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> community from a genocidal vizier, prompting the celebration of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Purim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Purim</span></a> — our most bacchanalian festival. Fifteen years ago, under the guidance of Dan Friedman, radical satiric firebrand Ian Fist founded the Backward to bring American Purim values to the Forward. He hired Rob Kutner from The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, thus revolutionizing online Jewish <a href="https://babka.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a>. Now Kutner has brought it all together in an irreverent <a href="https://babka.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> The <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>: 5,000 Years and Counting and Friedman spoke to him about it."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/books/703555/the-jews-rob-kutner-five-thousand-years-and-counting/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/books/7035</span><span class="invisible">55/the-jews-rob-kutner-five-thousand-years-and-counting/</span></a></p>