The Five Towns and Hewlett Chabads celebrated Purim with huge parties on March 17.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/31/22
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Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School welcomed March, and the Jewish month of Adar, with festive programs, unique themed days and intense sporting events.
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By Kyra Seidel
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3/22/22
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Purim is a time of celebration and festivities but in recent years has also become an opportunity for dangerous behaviors with devastating outcomes.
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By Susan Blauner
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3/11/22
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Have you ever wondered why we have an egg on the Passover Seder plate?
Exactly one year ago in the midst of the pandemic, I was giving a virtual model seder to our community.
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By Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim
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3/24/21
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HAFTR High School students on the Chesed Committee led by Rabbi Gary Slochowsky with committee heads Zachary Gellman and Sofia Goldschlag, organized a Chesed project to give back to the community on Purim.
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By Jeff Bessen
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2/25/21
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There was a moving shark, surfboarding, virtual reality scuba diving, sushi and a sea shore beach side bar, all part of the Chabad of Hewlett’s Purim Under the Sea party at Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park on March 10.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/19/20
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At least a baker’s dozen of children, who are part of the Chabad of Hewlett’s after-school program for fourth- and fifth-graders Jewish Kids Club of Hewlett, packed Purim packages that will be sent to Israel Defense Forces soldiers and children who live at the Mishpacha Jewish Orphanage in Odessa, a port city in the southern Ukraine.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/5/20
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An Arabian Nights Purim at the Persian Palace was the theme for this year’s Chabad House of Hewlett’s celebration of the Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from a threatened massacre in ancient Persia.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/28/19
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The Brandeis School Parents Association organized their annual Purim celebration by preparing the “Misholach Manot” for students, a basket of fruit that symbolizes friendship.
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By Ashley Carl
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3/8/18
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There were two readings of the Megillah, dancing, pony rides, making hamantashen, a petting zoo, a village seamstress and a scribe and plenty of food and drink as the Chabad of Hewlett celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim on Feb. 28.
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By Jeff Bessen
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3/8/18
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