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Adventures in American Judaism II (Part 6)

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This week's topic: Behind the Laughter: American Judaism and its Purim Shpiels How did the Purim Shpiel migrate to the United States? And how did it become a fitting annual activity for otherwise-straight-laced yeshiva students? The story is a good…
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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 5)

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This week's topic: The Great Nineteenth Century Purim Ball Revival In the 1860s, a group of young Jews helped bring about a Jewish religious revival, first in New York, and then across North America, through a little known and little appreciated…
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Could Yirmiyahu Have Saved Shushan? Finding Prophets in Megillat Esther

Yoetzet Halacha Adina Blaustein

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The World of the Megillah: Making Room for Change

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

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e-TiM: Adventures in American Judaism II

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff Wednesdays, January 15 - March 19 (10 weeks)11:00am Eastern time, 6:00pm Israel Time   January 15: The Grand Union Hotel and Its Jewish "In-Crowd" In 1877, the prominent Jewish businessman, Joseph Seligman was refused entry…
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Purim Thoughts: Far, Far Away

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The decree has been promulgated and publicized through the empire. 127 provinces have received “hurried” instructions that they should “destroy, massacre, and exterminate all the Jews, young and old, children and women, on a single day, on the…
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Purim: A New Era

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Join as we discuss how Purim ushers in a new era in Jewish history and philosophy. 
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Mishloach Manot: What's the Connection to the Purim Story?

Rabbi Menachem Leibtag

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Esther, Mordechai, and the Legacy of King Saul

Professor Yitzhak Berger

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Searching for G-d in Megillat Esther

Rabbi David Silber

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