Chaya Sara Oppenheim

Today nearly 10,000 people are making their way to pray at the Viznitz cemetery in Monsey—a pilgrimage that occurs on the eve of every Jewish month. My latest for @tabletmag here: The Pilgrimage to Monsey tabletmag.com/sections/commu…

To celebrate our 300th issue of The Shekel, we are pleased to share a free digital copy with any reader. Please email ainapresident@gmail.com or theshekeleditor@gmail.com to request the issue

@jlrosewater Congrats!

Mazal tov to our editor @csoppenheim for being selected as part of @SefariaProject's Word-by-Word Jewish Women's Writing Circle!

We are thrilled to introduced you to the writers of Word-by-Word, a 3-year program to support Jewish women in producing publishable works of Torah scholarship! Get to know the cohort and the books they're working on: bit.ly/3LHCrZK

Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Staten Island, NY where R Yehuda Tzvi Steiner, brother of Reb Shayala is buried

Today, eateries across the Orthodox Jewish world open up their kitchens in memory of Reb Shayala of Kerestir, a Hasidic rabbi renowned for feeding the hungry. My latest for @tabletmag: Reb Shayala’s Free Lunch tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

@tabletmag Today:

Reb Shayala’s Free Lunch: Orthodox eateries open their kitchens to mark the yahrzeit of a Hasidic rebbe known for feeding the hungry. tabletmag.com/sections/food/…

“When you believe in miracles you believe in life continuing.” @csoppenheim w/ @AriLamm Great conversation 👇👇👇👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/goo…

A New Horror Film’s Surprisingly Sensitive Treatment of Hasidic Life mosaicmagazine.com/picks/arts-cul… via @mosaicmag @MomentMagazine @DecalReleasing

Why some medieval Jewish communities used to convene a "Second Purim": mosaicmagazine.com/picks/religion…

A Freilichen Purim! Thank you @mosaicmag for including my latest @tabletmag article on Megillat Saragossa as an Editor's Pick: A 14th-Century Jewish Community Viewed Itself as Having Relived the Book of Esther mosaicmagazine.com/picks/religion… via @mosaicmag

A freilichen Purim! "A Second Purim Story" when one is not enough: tabletmag.com/sections/holid… @tabletmag

The original Purim story famously makes no mention of God. In Megillat Saragossa, however, God’s name appears multiple times. The mention of a divine presence assure its audience—Jews of Saragossa and their descendants—that God has not abandoned them.

A Second Purim Story: Megillat Saragossa tells a tale that parallels the Book of Esther, from @csoppenheim. tabletmag.com/sections/holid…

Megillat Saragossa proves that the medieval Jews felt so connected to their heritage that they viewed a contemporary event as worthy of remembrance and significant enough to narrate in the style evocative of Megillat Esther—by @csoppenheim for @tabletmag bit.ly/41JzxLi

Oh yay!! So excited to see this published. It was so much fun looking at these manuscripts with you, @csoppenheim!

"While human instinct demands that we bond briefly over tragedies, our Jewish community requires much deeper coalitions to celebrate averted ones": A Second Purim Story tabletmag.com/sections/holid… @tabletmag