A very special Megillah reading on an airplane headed for Ukraine
Scroll used was rescued from Germany before the war, preserved over generations.
Scroll used was rescued from Germany before the war, preserved over generations.
The stage is set for the thrills by the boring moments that precede them and that is the lesson of Purim.
Close Megillah reading is essential to understanding exile mentality, on the part of government, gentiles and Jews in their host country.
Two decades of North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA) middle school students chant the entire Megillah - a wonderful tradition to emulate..
Brothers and sisters, WAKE UP! The story of the Megillah is being replayed today,
A Biblical Book that doesn’t mention God? Events that ignore Eretz Yisra’el? Preposterous, some said!
To the Iranian Mullahs, like Haman, Jews sitting at‘their gate to the King (the Almighty) in Jerusalem as sovereigns, is intolerable.
Israeli artist sets Guinness World Record for longest megillah scroll.
The Megillah is replete with symbols of disguise and hiding and it is not by chance that the Torah reading talks of the priest's garments..
When Purim falls on a Friday, the celebration entails details explained below - in Jerusalem and specific cities, it lasts for three days!
Esther Horgen's family decided to let her light shine on and created The Israel Bible Scroll of Esther with her illustrations. Op-ed.
Jews converge on the tomb of the prophet Joshua to read the Megilla during the festival of Purim.
During search of house in Tulkarm Border Police find scroll stolen from synagogue in north; return it to son of deceased and to community.
A unique Megillat Esther was written and read from in a Nazi labor camp during the Second World War.
A debate many thought had been resolved long ago has been revived this year for residents of a Jerusalem suburb on when to celebrate Purim.
Some IDF soldiers are in hot water for using their weapons as “noisemakers” during the reading of the Megillah.
Fifty men, women and children join Megilla reading at Homesh, which was abandoned in the 2005 Disengagement.
When he lived in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef z”tl used to read the megilla on Purim, as well as on Shushan Purim, said his son.
Yeshiva students plan round-the-clock readings of the Book of Esther for Tel Aviv revelers.
Karaoke-style Powerpoint Megillah presentations to accompany chazan in 200 synagogues.