Don’t Pass Over Goodwill When Shopping For Judaica

Happy Pesach (Passover), Easter, Peaster and Eastover season 5785/2025, my fellow gifted thrifters and thrifty gifters, from my interfaith family and I!

It’s April – second month of Spring, Nisan and Iyyar, Arab American Month. Month of April Fools Day, Pesach (Passover), Holy Week, Tax Day, NonBinary Parents Day, Easter Sunday and Monday, Earth Day, and Yom HaShoah (a Holocaust remembrance day).

Nu, my post title is a joke AND a fact – there is so much good Judaica at Goodwill of Greater Washington, online and off, for the holidays and year round. And today, as is tradition for big Jewish holiday months, I’m going to show you some of it. First off all, both of my seder plates are from Goodwill:

And I considered trying to add a third last month:

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/225003266

Vintage Brass Enamel Ornate Passover Plate

The Torah is central to Judaism all year, and a mini scroll like this is high on my wish list; we carry the scroll in synagogue every Shabbat, and in a special way on the holiday of Simchat Torah in the Fall.

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/214470139

vintage Jewish Hebrew sefer Torah scroll in solid brass case

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/226834928

Seymour Rosenthal Signed Lithograph Elder With Torah

I’ll talk more about Hanukkah menorahs (newer, nine lights) in December, but you should keep an eye out for them all year; the two other items have Temple menorahs (older, seven lights), which are a year round symbol.

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/223874155

Spode Blue Room Menorah

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/222760799

Angel Carrying Candles

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/222647215

925 Sterling Silver Multi Gemstone Lot of 5 Necklaces with Pendant 29.2g

Circling back to synagogues, I would have been very tempted by this one in person.

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/221211856

Little Synagogue On The Prairie

DC Goodwill’s Shop Goodwill site has had so much hamsa jewelry just this year that I can’t show you all of it! Which is not unusual – at least once I’ve done a post here all about hamsas. This is one listing, and I encourage you to check out two, three, four, five, six, seven and eight.

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/220579393

925 Sterling Silver Tiger’s Eye larimar Onyx Pendant Necklace Lot 50.2g

It’s a similar story with their Magen David jewels! I’ll show you this one, and you can surf through to two, three, four, five, six and seven.

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/220859240

925 Sterling Silver Lapis Inlay Star of David Pendant 1″ Choker Necklace 16″ 8g

Last but not least, I saw two Judaica items recently at my Goodwill right here in Gaithersburg. Yet another Magen! And two hors d’oeuvres dishes originally intended for Christmas joy; I actually use “O” and “Y” Xmas stocking hangers from my Buy Nothing group in my annual Chrismukkah tablescape.