A year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Helen Chervitz, the Forward’s correspondent in Kyiv, talked with Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, 58, one of two men who claim to be chief rabbi of the country. He leads the ...
While some Oktoberfests are knockoffs – created by Americans who’ve never even been to Germany – Andy Grogger’s Oktoberfest, in Frisco, is the real thing. At first, you might notice his strong, hulky ...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — On Purim, can we really blot out the memory of an evil like Haman, who threatened our very existence, with a noisemaker? When in a popular Purim song we sing “Hava narishah-rash, ...
Kiryat Arba regional council head and students with the groggerThe mission-based seed of Kiryat Arba Kiryat Arba, located adjacent to Hevron in Judea, held its Purim carnival on Friday ahead of the ...
During our first trip to Israel many years ago we bought a humorous silver Purim grogger that depicts a man holding a goblet of wine, almost tipsy, dancing while being bucked by a frisky goat as a ...
Some objects look like they have stories to tell, but the grogger never seemed as though it was one of them. A single photograph convinced me I was wrong, though. You’ll be forgiven if you think it is ...
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