{"id":12534,"date":"2009-03-12T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/production.ou.org\/life\/other\/lev_yehudi_gather_the_jews\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:38:10","slug":"lev_yehudi_gather_the_jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/lev_yehudi_gather_the_jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Lev Yehudi: Gather the Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ou-images\/content\/YW_LH_purim09_123_200.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"184\" height=\"132\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Purim night, OU Israel\u2019s Lev Yehudi program hosted an evening of grogger making, megillah reading and entertainment. Lev Yehudi reaches out to Jews in the Tel Aviv area, introducing them to their Jewish heritage and Jewish customs, and for many participants this was a Purim like they had never experienced before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy who read the megillah told me that standing there and reading the megillah \u2013 with hundreds of people from Tel Aviv, many who have never heard it read before, there are a few words in the megillah that really stand out,\u201d shared Rabbi Avi Berman, Director of OU Israel. \u201cWhen Esther tells Mordechai to gather all the Jews and fast, he felt like he was doing the same thing. Religious, non-religious, those that have listened every year to the megillah, and those hearing it for the first time. They were all gathered there. There\u2019s no better feeling than to learn and practice what our teachers and leaders have taught us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Purim night, OU Israel\u2019s Lev Yehudi program hosted an evening of grogger making, megillah reading and entertainment. 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