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Holiday Gift Packages
Month after month, the Jewish calendar offers special times rich with tradition and enjoyment for the whole family. Throughout the year, Oorah’s holiday gift boxes come to homes across the country, filled with just what they and the children in their life need to make every holiday a real celebration.
Chanukah
Chanukah Party-in-a-Box
Thousands of families have turned Chanukah into the family get-together of the year with Oorah’s hand-picked Chanukah paper goods, dreidels, menorahs and candles, recipes and cooking accessories, books and CDs for children and adults alike.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Purim
Purim Shalach Manos
Shalach Manos – edible gifts sent to friends and neighbors – is part of what makes Purim a day of fun and friendship. When Oorah sends Shalach Manos to its family, it’s our chance to rekindle our connection to our friends, and help to usher in Purim with style and smiles.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Passover
Passover Package
This yearly gift box delivers the quintessential Passover food -- round, handmade shmura matzah – along with a bedikas chometz set (used for searching for left-over chometz the night before Passover), kosher for Passover candy, plus plenty of important information for making a kosher Passover and seder.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Sukkos
Sukkos Lulav and Esrog
Checked for kashrus and carefully packaged to remain fresh and in tact, thousands of lulav-and-esrog sets make their way to Jewish homes across the country, giving every Oorah family a chance to share in this beloved mitzvah.Sukkah Building
Children, parents and even grandparents sometimes break into a joyful dance at the completion of their first sukkah erected in their own back yard. Oorah makes it happen, supplying the sukkah as well as volunteers to erect it, usually with the enthusiastic help of family members. Often, the sukkah becomes the talk of the neighborhood as friends and extended family come to share a rich, authentic Jewish holiday experience.The Sukkah Exchange
Oorah provides a matchmaker service that takes used sukkahs in good condition from families who are replacing or discarding them, and gives the sukkahs to families who need them.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Holiday Celebrations
As the holidays approach, Oorah swings into full gear to ensure that every member of the “Oorah family” will have a meaningful, memorable encounter with each special season of the Jewish year.
Trips
Chol Hamoed Trips
Kids who went on Oorah’s Chol Hamoed trips two decades ago still recall them as some of their fondest childhood memories. What’s so special? First of all, there are the exciting destinations like Great Adventure and New Roc City. But most of all, there’s the phenomenal spirit of friendship as kids and counselors reconnect and plunge head-first into a day of fun and excitement. More than 600 children joined in the Sukkos 2010 trip to New Roc City, and there are more participants each year.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Purim
Purim Seudah
No one could describe the combination of zaniness and holiness that Purim brings. It has to be experienced, and that is what more than 800 guests do each year at Oorah’s annual Purim seudah in Lakewood, NJ. Arriving from all over the tri-state area and beyond, families come together in an array of costumes to enjoy a grand seudah, volunteer entertainers, top-of-the-line music and dancing, plus kid-friendly attractions like a monkey, a horse-and-buggy ride and a magic show. Adding to the excitement, the Purim seudah is often the place where Torahmates meet their partners in person for the first time. No matter how many Purim celebrations a person has been to, Oorah’s is always something special.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Sukkos
Simchas Bais Hashoeiva
The Talmud describes the Simchas Beis Hashoeiva in the days of the First Temple as the epitome of joy. Oorah does its best to evoke that spirit with a delightful night of good food, music, dancing, inspiring words of Torah and the warmth and friendship that are the main features of every Oorah event.
- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Passover
Mechiras Chometz
To help ensure that every Oorah family fulfills the obligation to sell its chometz before Passover, Oorah established its own Mechiras Chometz program, resulting in hundreds of families having the opportunity to fulfill a vital mitzvah.- Bringing Jewish holidays into the home allows the family to create strong bonds and memories that last a lifetime.
- Celebrating holidays means that the year is not just a bunch of monotonous pages on a calendar, rather it is opportunity to connect to the Jewish community throughout the seasons.
Holiday Study Guides
Whatever texts or subjects Torahmates learn together, the holidays provide a prime time for imparting basic concepts of Jewish life. “Talking Points”, our holiday study guides, give each learning partner an outline of the holiday’s major traditions and significance, laying the foundation for learning, discussion and a more meaningful holiday.
Oorah's families speak...
"...It was because of Oorah sending that sukkah that we now observe Sukkot!" Angela Homapour
my faith and my love for our Jewish heritage
Having our very own sukkah was so moving and it has become our family tradition to make decorations. Going to the Shabbatons and Purim parties helps the children feel a part of a bigger whole than just our family, and my learning has strengthened my faith and my love for our Jewish heritage
Rochelle BrodskyOorah remembers us every holiday.
Oorah remembers us every holiday. They provided us with a sukkah that I would have never purchased on my own. The truth is, it was because of Oorah sending that sukkah that we now observe Sukkot!
Angela Homapourcelebrate Shabbos and all the holidays
I have 2 grown sons who had no interest in learning about Judaism until they saw the 'holiday packages' that come before every holiday. Their curiosity caused them to ask questions and now we celebrate Shabbos and all the holidays together.
Linda Pawlawskilittle things that make a difference.
I remember receiving a package from Oorah in the mail before one of the Jewish holidays, and my daughter was so happy. It's really the little things that make a difference.
Zina Sagirayev
