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“Megillat Hitler” rolled together with a Megillat Esther (Esther Scroll), Casablanca, Morocco, 1944. Credit: Yad Vashem Artifact Collection, Donated by Alberto Corcos, Herzliya, Israel.

How Jews made the holiday of Purim personal

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“Cursed is Hitler, cursed is Mussolini … Blessed is Roosevelt, blessed is Churchill.” With these words, the Moroccan scribe Prosper Hassine concluded his account of World War II and the Holocaust. The story was familiar,...
Ukrainian refugees and their hosts celebrate Purim with a reading of the Megillah and the shaking of a grogger in the national colors of Ukraine at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre and Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, March 17, 2022. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungarian Jews mark Purim with Ukrainian refugees, stressing peace

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Hundreds, most of them refugees from Ukraine, attended the Purim ceremony at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre and Synagogue in Budapest, where they heard the reading of the Megillah. Prior to the program, the EMIH-Hungarian...
A Megillat Esther (“Scroll of Esther”) written by a 14-year-old Jewish girl from Rome was revealed in Israel and will be auctioned off in Jerusalem, November 2021. Credit: Kedem Auction House.

Scroll of Esther written by 14-year-old Italian girl to be auctioned off in Jerusalem

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A Megillat Esther (“Scroll of Esther”) written by a 14-year-old Jewish girl from Rome was revealed this week in Jerusalem. The discovery, especially significant as Scrolls of Esther inscribed during that time period by women are few...
Rabbi Elie Mischel of Suburban Torah Center in Livingston, N.J. (left) and Rabbi Elliot Mathias, global COO of Aish HaTorah, speak to U.S. soldiers in Kuwait via Zoom on Friday morning to thank them for their service and welcome them for the Purim Megillah reading. Photo by Faygie Holt.

Aish HaTorah livestreams Megillah reading to US troops in Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar

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Through a request from U.S. Army Chaplain Rabbi David Becker, Aish Global livestreamed Megillah readings via Zoom to U.S. military troops stationed in Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq on both Purim evening and Purim day. Rabbi...
A panel from the rare medieval Scroll of Esther recently donated to the National Library of Israel. The library announced that it would be viewed online on Feb. 22, 2021. Credit: National Library of Israel.

Israel’s National Library gains gift of rare 15th-century Scroll of Esther

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One of the world’s oldest scrolls of Esther was recently gifted to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, the library’s blog announced on Monday. The scroll, dating from medieval times, was a gift from...
“The Israel Bible: Scroll of Esther,” published in honor of slain Israeli Esther Horgen. Credit: Courtesy.

Ahead of Purim, ‘Israel Bible’ publishes special scroll in honor of Esther Horgen

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The Israel Bible has published a new edition of the Scroll of Esther in honor of Esther Horgen, the 52-year-old mother of six murdered on Dec. 21 by a Palestinian terrorist near her Tal Menashe home. The release...