Photo Coverage: Purim Cabaret!

It's that time of year - Purim! Seth Rudetsky assembled a top notch group of performers this year at the JCC to perform songs from shows weaved throughout the story of Purim. The cast included Seth, Aisha DeHaas, Manoel Felciano, Orfeh, Jeff Marx, Bobby Lopez, Paige Price, Emily Skinner and Paul Castree.

The event raised money for Beth Simchat Torah Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is New York City's synagogue for the New York metropolitan area's 200,000 gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews, as well as our families and friends. Founded in 1973, and under the leadership of Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum since 1992, CBST has become the largest GLBT synagogue in the world and arguably one of the most influential. Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is New York's gay synagogue, dedicated to the proposition that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Jews are wholly legitimate members of the Jewish People, are equally legitimate members of civil society and have a unique and essential contribution to make the life of Judaism and to the larger society in which we live.

Host for the evening, Seth Rudetsky|

The uber talented, Emily Skinner

Manoel Felciano (who not only sang/played "Not While I'm Around
but also wrote his own Purim lyrics to a song from
Jesus Christ Superstar!)

Orfeh singing "Suddenly Seymour"

with Paul Castree as "Seymour"

Jeff Marx sang "Tear It Up and Throw It Away"...

With Bobby Lopez at the piano

SNF reunion - Orfeh and Paige Price sing "Nights On Broadway"

Paige Price

Aisha DeHaas closed out the evening with a moving
rendition of "I Am Changing"

Orfeh, Paul and Aisha

The cast of Purim Cabaret '06