The ancient biblical festival of Purim is here again, this year celebrated from sundown March 2 to sundown March 3. And once again, Israel is at war with Iran. Could it be that history will repeat ...

Esther’s greatness lies not only in her willingness to speak truth to power, but in choosing the strategic moment to do so.

I became an activist because I saw pollution and environmental racism afflicting my own community, as those in power targeted ...

But these early rabbinic sources from the second and third centuries suggest that this may not always have been self-evident.

At the center of Hamadan, Iran, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, stands the holiest site for Jews ...

The King, who never realized that Esther was Jewish, is outraged at Haman. He has his minister executed. In subsequent conversations with Esther, Achasverosh grants the Jews the right to self-defense ...

Purim has the reputation of being Judaism’s carnival — costumes, drinking, irreverence, and near debauchery. But its core is ...

The result is that it takes my opponents by complete surprise and creates total pandemonium in their minds. It freezes their ...

Ultimately revealing how the Talmud managed to reverse the meaning of Megillat Esther in the greatest Purim v’nahafoch hu ...

On the day we wear masks, we are commanded not to look away. This Purim, when a hand reaches out, give. Start with something ...

What is a holiday like Purim doing on the Jewish calendar? What is a book like Esther doing in the Tanakh? Was the holiday ...