One of the staples of Purim is the reading of The Megillah, also known as The Book of Esther. It's done once on Purim night (this year, that'd be the evening of March 13) and once on Purim day ...

Vashti, Esther, And The Feminist History of Purim. A fresco of "Queen Esther" in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, painted by Andrea del Castagno in 1450. By Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Purim begins at sundown on Wednesday. The holiday recalls the ancient story of how Queen Esther bravely saved the Jewish people. It is a tradition for groups of Jewish people to read from the Book ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim begins at sunset, Saturday, March 23. At synagogues across the world, people will read the Book of Esther. But its story of celebration is followed by another, darker ...

Queens Esther and Vashti are extremely important and fascinating from the point of view of female leadership in religious stories. Purim is a Hebrew word that means "lots" or "luck." ...

You may know that Queen Esther is the heroine of the joyful holiday of Purim, which begins Wednesday evening. She was the beautiful Jewish woman selected by the King of Persia to be his wife.

Purim thus marks the fragility of Jewish security, but also the possibility of heroism in the face of this vulnerability. It is therefore a holiday for our time.

The Purim story is one of stunning reversals, none more consequential than Esther’s transition from passivity to action. She begins as an abandoned orphan, taken in by her cousin, who instructs ...

But over time, Esther was embraced in Protestant writings, says Carruthers, who published “The Politics of Purim” in 2020. Queen Elizabeth I of England was likened to Esther. So was the ...

One of the staples of Purim is the reading of The Megillah, also known as The Book of Esther. It's done once on Purim night ...

You may know that Queen Esther is the heroine of the joyful holiday of Purim, which begins Wednesday evening. She was the beautiful Jewish woman selected by the King of Persia to be his wife.