The eScapegoat roams the Internet collecting sins before Yom Kippur. This web app is inspired by the Yom Kippur rituals from the time of the Temple in which a goat is symbolically burdened with the sins of the Jewish people. In the app, this action is symbolized by a whimsical animated goat receiving the sins that users share with it.
Learn how to build a sukkah with this handy guide made with Moishe House.
Thanks for this Sukkah Guide
Thank you to our friends at Moishe House for helping create this animated How to Make a Sukkah guide. Additional thanks to Katherine Bruce, Dr. Zvi Bellin, Elliot Cowan, Matthue Roth, Sarah Lefton, Moishe House East Bay, Rachel Thompson, Taglit Birthright Israel, The Jewish New Media Innovation Foundation, The Jim Joseph Foundation, Righteous Persons Foundation, The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Jewish Funders Network and Joshua Walters.
A music video about the Torah’s most famous siblings: Aaron, Miriam and Moses, (Aharon, Miryam and Moshe in Hebrew) and the many adventures and rivalries they share throughout the Torah.
This piece was created in four weeks by 6 families, brought together by Kevah. Since each of the families had varied backgrounds in studying Torah and were diverse in age, the group decided to take a creative approach to learning text together. The eleven kids aged 5 to 15 along with their parents – a speechwriter, studio painter, landscape architect, art photographer, museum curator, singer, programmer, professor, and several entrepreneurs – decided that they wanted to make an animated musical film about sibling relationships in the Torah.
Parshat Bereshit brings us back to beginnings.
What’s so good, that G-d called it so twice? Tuesday, of course! ?$%#! Tune in to the finale of BimBam’s Torah project in this week’s episode – Bereshit – to find out what that’s supposed to mean.
Sometimes, someone has to take a stand to set things right. Sometimes…that someone…is YOU. Meet Esther, the young woman at the middle of the famous Purim story. Follow her as she gets swept up into history, leaving her jump rope, her people, and her cheering section behind…maybe.
Yom Kippur is an amazing opportunity to change, grow and connect.
Just ask Jonah, the hero of the Yom Kippur afternoon haftarah. Check in with Jonah and the whale (okay, fish) and learn how Yom Kippur connects us to God, to our communities, and to our true selves.
To learn the basics of Yom Kippur, watch our Judaism 101 video.
Sukkot is the happiest Jewish holiday, but it’s traditional to read Kohelet (Ecclesiastes), which can get pretty gloomy! Hadara Levin-Areddy tells the story from King Solomon’s point of view and connects the dots from sadness to joy.
Spin yourself back in time in this animated short to learn the story of Chanukah and why we celebrate miracles in the darkest and coldest part of the year.
During this eight day and eight night festival of lights people around the world will light candles, play the game of dreidel and enjoy foods made with oil such as latkes and sufganiyot (jelly donuts!)
More Chanukah videos and resources here.
Tu B’shvat is the Jewish birthday of the trees…so here’s a little tale we created to honor our big friends. Straight from the Talmud (the living encyclopedia of Jewish law), BimBam brings you two stories about Honi the Circle Maker! Now get out there and hug a tree.
There’s a famous part of the Passover Haggadah where four children are described – one who is wise, wicked, simple and one does not know how to ask a question. We decided to zoom in these four sons (the tradition calls them sons, and we went literal here…do be sure to stay around for a comment on that choice at the end of the video!) The characters – wise, wicked, simple and the one who doesn’t know how to ask questions, can be found all over the world, but we’ve set their story in Moscow.
Watch out for a fun global Passover quiz at the end!
