Jewish religious life at home

Anniversaries

Yudy and Frances Elowitch at Maurice Drees's 75th Birthday date not known (Portland)
25th anniversary party for Jean and Lou Striar - Group Shot 3 1957-58 (Bangor)
25th anniversary party for Jean and Lou Striar - Group Shot 4 1957-58 (Bangor)
25th anniversary party for Jean and Lou Striar - Group Shot 5 1957-58 (Bangor)
25th anniversary party for Jean and Lou Striar - Group Shot 1 1957-58 (Bangor)

Announcements

Jewish Advocate --Bath Me News 1946-05-02 5/2/1946 (Bath )

Birth

James Jacob Viner Citizenship Certificate 1929 (Bangor)
Birth announcement for Mr and Mrs James Miller's granddaughter 10/15/1960 (Lewiston)

Blessing Of The Children

Blessing of the Children date not known (Bangor)

Candle Lighting

Doretta Shapiro and Granddaughter Light Hanukkah [sic] Candles date not known (Gardiner)
Photo of Woman Blessing the Candles date not known (Portland)
Two women light menorah at the Cedars date not known
Gertrude Kriger Lighting Candles at Passover 1955 (Portland)
Rabbi Susan Bulba Carvutto lights Candle (with Peter Shaffer and others) ca 1997 (Farmington )
Shabbat candlesticks 06/13/11 (Waterville)

Chanukah

Jewish Community Center (Auburn-Lewiston) Chanukah newspaper story date not known (Lewiston-Auburn)
Jews in Hanukkah celebrations date not known (Augusta)
2 boys on the last night of Chanukah circa 1950 (Portland)
Children Building Their Chanukiah 1952 (Portland)
Three Men in Front of Memorah 1954 (Portland)
Eight Girls With Menorah at Temple Beth El 1955 (Portland)
Portland Hebrew Day School Chanukah Play 1955 1955 (Portland)
Rabbi Bekritsky and His Children (Bruce and Joy) Lighting the Menorah 1955 (Portland)
Baile Bornstein Lighting The Fourth Candle On Chanukah With Her Classmates Behind Her 1956 (Portland)
Five boys lighting a menorah circa 1956 (Portland)
Hadassah Chanukah Party (Lewiston-Auburn Chapter) - two newspaper articles Nov23 & 27, 1956 (Lewiston-Auburn)
New Officers of Shaarey Tphiloh Sisterhood Lighting The Fifth Candle on Chanukah December 1956 (Portland)
Celebrate Festival of Lights at Portland Hebrew School Dec 18, 1957 (Portland)
Judaism's Festival Of Dedication Underway by George W Cornell 1960 (Waterville)
Sylvia Woolf and son Alan lighting Chanukah candles circa 1961 (Portland )
Festival of Lights 2008 (Augusta)
Holiday in Old Hallowell celebration starts today 12/12/2009 (Hallowell)
Festival of Lights Hanukkah Celebration ca 2011 (Augusta )
Hanukkah at the Mad Dog Pub 2011 (Gardiner)
Menorah 06/13/11 (Eastport)

Engagement

Engagement of Esther L Rubinsky to Bennett Webber Is Being Announced date not known (Portland)
Nancy Greene wedding announcement date not known (Auburn)
Rebecca & Abraham Thorner Engagement circa 1911 (to be determined)
James R Abram Engagement Notice 8/31/1917 (to be determined)
Dorothy Green engagement photo 1932 (Portland)
Bernice Miller engagement notice 8/5/1957 (Lewiston)
Engagement Announcement Ruth Flock Glazerman 1/7/1961 (Lewiston)

Incorporation Papers

Chevra t'Hillim incorporation papers, Portland, 1914 04/27/14 (Portland)

Installation

Installation Ceremonies of Rabbi Ephraim Bennett 5 Dec 1948 (Portland )

Kiddish

Kosher

Kosher Lobster? 2011 (Waterville)
Lobster Scandal at Zabar's 8/12/2011 (to be determined)
Orthodox Union Sues Maine Dairy Over Kosher Symbol 4/12/2012 (to be determined)

Ksoher

Jews wrestle with pork 30-Jan-13 (South Portland)

Matzah

A Collection of 203 articles from the Bath Independent date not known (Bath)

Memorial Candle

Memorial candle 06/13/11 (Portland)

Not Yet Classified

A Collection of 203 articles from the Bath Independent date not known (Bath)

Passover

A Collection of 203 articles from the Bath Independent date not known (Bath)
Bangor seder moment date not known
Holiness of Passover brings Christians, Jews, Together date not known (Augusta)
Matzoh Display Inside Blumenthal's Butcher Shop date not known
Passover Seder at the Jewish Home for the Aged I date not known (Portland)
Passover Seder at the Jewish Home for the Aged II date not known (Portland)
Passover Seder at the Jewish Home for the Aged III date not known (Portland)
Passover Seder at the Jewish Home for the Aged IV date not known (Portland)
Sacred Seder date not known (Augusta)
Family Passover Seder, Bangor c. April 1940 (Bangor)
Minsky family Passover Seder, Bangor, 1940s 1940 (Bangor)
Cohen Wiener Family Seder 1947 (Lewiston)
Cohen-Emple Seder in Bangor 1947 or 1948 (Bangor)
Passover Community Seder Bangor 1946 1947 (Bangor)
Striar/Cooper Family Seder 1947 (Bangor)
Striar/Cooper Family Seder 1 1947 (Bangor)
Viner Family Seder 13-Apr-49 (Bangor)
Group Photo of Children at Passover, B'nai B'rith Cumberland Lodge 1951 c (Portland)
Seder at home of Mim and Jim Viner (Miriam and James) 1952 (Bangor)
Brenerman and Another Child Preparing for Passover Sedar, at Portland Hebrew Day School, 116 Pearl St 1954 (Portland)
Edith Blumenthal at Beth El Community Sedar 1955 (Portland)
Edith Blumenthal at Beth El Community Sedar 1955 (Portland)
Woman at Beth El Community Sedar I 1955 (Portland)
Woman at Beth El Community Seder II 1955 (Portland)
Myer and Bess Minsky Seder 1956 (Bangor)
Model Seder 1957 (Portland)
Passover Seder at the Woolf family home , Portland 1960
Four Generations of Baker Family before the first Seder in Auburn 1963 (Auburn)
First Community Seder International Lodge B'Nai B'rith No. 1289 4/17/1965 (Presque Isle)
A Passover Celebration in Bath Apr-78 (Bath )
Jewish Food : You don't have to go to synagogue for Passover foods 1983 (Waterville)

Rosh Hashanah

Petlock Family Rosh Hashanah 1928 (Bath)

Scrapbooks

Anne Levine Wolff Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Bibby Levine Alfond Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Big House Scrapbook: Levine Family of Waterville : Stories about the Siblings Together 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Evelyn Levine Gold Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Frieda Levine Miller Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Levines and Colby Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Ludy Levine Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)
Pacy Levine Scrapbook 1/1/2011 (Waterville)

Toothpaste

The Kosher Toothpaste Debate 4/15/2010 (York)

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