Purim is a tale of resilience, standing up and speaking out. Now more than ever, we need YOUR story!
Join Cantor and performing artist Karen Webber for a creative journey drawing inspiration from fairy tales, folk tales and the Purim story to craft your own narrative about finding courage, speaking your truth and fighting for justice. Whether you share your story for the holiday or another occasion, Purim is the perfect opportunity to embrace your role as a storyteller.
Karen Webber is a performance, teaching and liturgical artist who crafts music/theatre pieces for use in Zoom rooms, senior centers and on the bimah. Ordained as a cantor by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1990. Karen has served congregations large and small in all four corners of the U.S. and Canada. The Maryland State Arts Council awarded her a Creativity grant based on an original short film in 2022, and a Master/Apprentice grant in Yiddish folksong in 2023. In 2024, Karen was invited by the Maryland State Arts Council to join the Folk Arts panel to award grants, to be a regional judge for ‘Poetry Out Loud’ Her poems appear online and in print at Ritualwell, Poetica, Unlikely Places, Abandon Journal and The Torrid Literature Journal. Her Havdalah ritual was published in Lilith Magazine (2009) poems in Am Yisrael Chai (2023) and essays in Prophetic Voices: a Haftarah commentary published by CCAR Press (2023)
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