In May 2015, Hebrew-Union College’s Skirball Museum in Clifton acquired the archives from the erstwhile B’nai B’rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Among them was this miniature ...
Twenty-seven middle school students from Great Neck’s North Shore Hebrew Academy NSHA — both Ashkenazic and Sephardic — joined together on Purim to chant the Gantze Megillah, Entire Scroll of Esther, ...
On Wednesday night, March 23, and Thursday morning, March 24, at Boca Raton Synagogue — a Modern Orthodox synagogue in west Boca Raton — a special thing happened this year to commemorate the Jewish ...
The Scroll of Esther is getting a makeover from some kids in Pennsylvania, a Reconstructionist scribe and a computer graphics program. Congregation Or Hadash, a small Reconstructionist synagogue ...
Avner Moriah said in a statement that it took him “15 years, tens of thousands of hours of work, and more than one million brushstrokes” to complete it. (JTA) — It’s the whole megillah, and more. This ...
The faithful gathered at Temple Beth El in Rutherford to celebrate the festival of Purim, marking the 14th of the Hebrew month of Adar and commemorating the rabbinical, post-Torah story of the Jews’ ...
The chance to scream “boo” at each mention of the arch-enemy Haman during the Megillah (scroll) reading of Purim is a pretty fun experience for most Jewish children. Purim, which this year falls on ...