Haaretz

“Set up two years ago and incorporated in December, the collective operates in close coordination with Emanuel Synagogue, a Conservative congregation in Oklahoma City whose membership growth in recent years has been fueled primarily by the LGBTQ community and Jews by Choice.

“And that’s how a bunch of crazy Okie Jews — many of them queers, converts, and women — ended up making a megillah from scratch for a kibbutz in Israel.””

The Oklahoman

“…more than 60 Oklahomans helped create the unique scroll, and it may be the first parchment scroll of Esther written or inscribed in Oklahoma. The participants were given opportunities to put a letter or a stitch on the scroll.

“People were very excited to create this important ritual object for a community that had lost it in very tragic circumstances."

“How wonderful is it that we can all participate in this mitzvah, this commandment — a great act of spiritual solidarity — with a community that is in pain, showing that halfway across the world, 'strangers love you — and here is a gift from us.'"