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." ...

The Story Behind Purim. Purim commemorates the dramatic events recorded in the Book of Esther, set in ancient Persia around the 5th century BCE.

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.

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 ...

This Purim, Esther and Mordechai Would Like to Have a Word with You. ... In anticipation of writing this year’s Purim column, I realized that I am hopelessly ambivalent about Purim 5785.

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.

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 ...