NSHA Megillah Men
NSHA Megillah Men
NSHA Megillah Men

A milestone at the North Shore Hebrew Academy Middle School in Great Neck will be reached when 17 students, both Ashkenazic and Sephardic, will chant Megillat Esther for their schoolmates, faculty, and families, in a special assemblage on Purim day.

Over the past 16 years, 275 students at the academy have been instructed by Dr. Paul Brody, a dermatologist by profession. This unique program, part of NSHA’s curriculum, enables students to read the Megillah at various synagogues, hospitals, nursing homes, and private homes for those unable to attend public readings. Middle School principal Rabbi Adam Acobas and head of school Rabbi Jeffrey Kobrin facilitate the students’ hectic schedules to enable adequate review time with Dr. Brody.

Dr. Brody’s Megillah, from which the boys will read, was presented to him and his wife Drora by the renowned Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Grossman, shlita, (known as the “Disco Rabbi”) of Migdal Ohr institutions, for their dedication in helping underprivileged Israeli children. Dr. Brody, who has read the Megillah for 45 years, once chanted it at the Great Synagogue in Leningrad in 1985, despite great peril, where the “gabbaim” were actually members of the KGB!

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