5:30-6:00 Special Dinner 3rd and 4th Graders ($10.00) 6:00-6:30 Face Painting 6:30-7:45 3rd/4th Graders with Parents/Siblings Hesed Project

Traditional Megillah Reading starts 6:30 PM

Family Megillah Reading

Purim AM minyan with Megillah Reading

Our Keruv Shabbat guest speaker will be Carolivia Herron. The title of her talk is: Catching Up With Moses: True Stories of Her Jewish Africana Journey to Judaism Carolivia Herron is an African American Jew who tells lively tales of her African American and Jewish ancestors. She has received many awards for her fiction and children’s writing, and has taught literature and creative writing at Harvard University, the College of William and Mary, and the Jewish Study Center of Washington. Her children’s book, Nappy Hair, was the center of a national controversy about identity, and Always an Olivia continues her tradition of literary novelty with cultural diversity. In addition to giving talks on her own writings she gives presentations nationally on issues of diversity, African American oral epic, and Jewish African American identity.

Author Carolivia Herron will reading in the Sanctuary from her books for children ages 6 through adult. Her new book, Always an Olivia, is the exciting tale of how the author’s Jewish ancestor, Sarah Shulamit, was stolen by pirates from Italy in 1805, and came to live with the Geechee African folk of the Georgia Sea Islands. Sarah Shulamit was rescued by U.S. Marines and by rabbis in Tripoli, Libya. Going even further back, Sarah’s ancestors were Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain and Portugal during the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th century.