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Finchley Fed. Purim 2026
March 4, 2026, 11:01 am
Celebrating the magic of Purim
Communities spread festival joy with costumes, parades, sing-a-longs, hamantaschen, Megillah readings, crafts and spiels
By Michelle Rosenberg
Coronation of Esther. Pic: National Library of Israel
March 11, 2025, 3:29 pm
17th-century Queen Esther scroll on show this Purim
National Library of Israel loans parchment to National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna
By Michelle Rosenberg
A women-only megillah reading at a United Synagogue community, March 2022
March 4, 2025, 10:43 am
OPINION: Wins and frustrations for women in Orthodox spaces
A new survey shows comparatively fast progress has been made in the past few decades
By Rabbi Miriam Lorie
Some of the participants in the online Purim events run by United Synagogue
March 2, 2021, 4:09 pm
Thousands attend online Purim events run by United Synagogue
It saw children from twelve primary schools take part in a Zoom quiz testing their knowledge of the Purim story among others
By Josh Salisbury
March 10, 2020, 10:25 am
Thousands watch United Synagogue live stream of Megillah for Purim
Megillat Esther was read at Mill Hill East shul and has been viewed almost 4,000 times on Facebook
By Jewish News Reporter
Megillat Esther (Wikipedia/Author Chefallen/Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
From the WebMarch 9, 2020, 3:39 pm
United Synagogue to live stream megillah reading due to ‘virus considerations’
Shul congregants who are unable to hear the Book of Esther in person can tune into Facebook
By Jewish News Reporter
January 30, 2017, 3:07 pm
Madonna, Blair, Putin and Bin Laden in celebrity Megillah
Characters from the Purim story portrayed as figures from the world of politics and entertainment in a Megillah to be auctioned this week.
By Yael Klein
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