Assemblyman Dov Hikind wore an Afro wig, an orange jersey and had his face painted brown by a professional makeup artist for a weekend party celebrating the Jewish holiday at his home.
The Iowa presidential caucuses are almost two years off, but the people who turned out last weekend were party activists.
Besides being the unofficial start of the weekend (party people, what's up?), it's time for another round of Ask Engadget.
But when it pushes back the tables for a weekend dance party, it attracts all kinds -- as long as they have the money.
The decision to invite a member of the Irish cabinet to speak at this weekend's party conference is the latest sign of changing times in Northern Ireland.
Celebrated each March in the mountain town of Nederland, Colorado (15 miles west of Boulder), this weekend-long party all started with a cryogenically frozen body and a bizarre set of circumstances to match.
Beaten to the nomination by Lord Archer, he joined a new contest after the peer's resignation as candidate but was controversially dumped last weekend after local party officials complained about his well-documented extra-marital affairs.
However, the party laid the groundwork for a special internal party conference next weekend in Dublin, which will review events since devolution 10 weeks ago and plan the party's future strategy.
Last weekend was a swim party they called a "sacrificial baptism": the last swim of the summer.
This weekend, at a party conference in Verona, Mr Fini will shrug off more of the past.
He doesn't expect any dramatic shift this weekend, with the party executive's motion most likely to be adopted.
Tchong held a party last weekend to celebrate the publication, drawing former staffers from all over the country including me.
David Cameron will arrive in Birmingham this weekend for his third party conference in the city in the space of five years.
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At a Manhattan party last weekend, a guy friend of mine was chatting with a woman for 20 minutes or so.
Dr Reid denied the plan was designed to help the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble ahead of the weekend meeting of his party's ruling council.
In state elections in Germany at the weekend Merkel's party suffered an electoral setback, losing control of Germany's most populous state to the opposition Social Democratic Party.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will address a special conference of his Liberal Democrat party this weekend in an effort to get members to endorse the coalition deal with the Tories.
They may not be helped by the ostentatious love-in between Mr Sarkozy and Tony Blair, who spoke (in French) to rapturous applause at an event organised by the president's centre-right party last weekend.
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In a debate over the weekend between the Liberal party, PQ, Coalition Avenir Quebec and Quebec Solidaire, Marois said she would impose a minimum 5% royalty rate on the gross value of all mining production.
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At the current rate of constructive engagement with New Labour those discordant voices in the Lib Dems which will be heard this weekend fear that their party might sell its birthright, merely to be lost in the crowd in Mr Blair's Big Tent.
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And consider this as you fill up on your way to a Super Bowl party this weekend: The oil and gas analyst Stephen Schork notes that while gasoline prices may seem high, they haven't risen nearly as fast as tickets to the big game.
David Cameron faces some blustery headwinds as he sets out for Birmingham and his party conference this weekend.
Here's a breakdown of the general argument, in case you want to be supercontrarian and appropriate these points for cocktail-party conversation this weekend.
Mr Trimble, for his part, goes into his annual party conference this weekend asserting that progress will be made, with or without Sinn Fein.
In weekend elections the governing Socialist party took a thrashing.
Mr Hue, overwhelmingly selected at the party's annual congress last weekend as its candidate for the French presidency, is a cuddly figure who has worked hard to distance the party from its Stalinist past.
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Last weekend in Denver, the Green Party chose Ralph Nader as its presidential candidate.
Hundreds of Sinn Fein delegates are gathering in Castlebar, County Mayo, this weekend for the Ard Fheis or party conference.
He did attend Iowa's inaugural party in Washington this weekend and invited New Hampshire's governor to his official swearing-in Sunday.
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In an interview last month on abortion, Caitriona Ruane told the BBC she would not be speculating on what the party might do this weekend.
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