The Jewish holiday of Purim is this week. It recalls a sad era of sex, seduction, intrigue, exhibitionism, partying and orgies in a strange, foreign land. The holiday is especially meaningful to Jewish residents of Southern California.

...Biblical scholars believe the events took place in what is now either the city of Susa, Iran...or the backlot at Fox.

...When questioned about the holiday, publicist Eliot Mintz would only say that his client Paris Hilton is not now and has never been Jewish.