Books of the Hebrew Bible are always written in Hebrew—except for this one.
There are many strange things about Purim that in the end connect to joy.
Behind the masekhah.
The holiday noisemaker bears a suspicious resemblance to the Spanish carraca.
Self-defense, not revenge.
Julius Streicher and the endurance of anti-Semitism.
Megillat Esther and Second Purim.
Purim in Yungvarg, 1948.
Yeshiva University students joined the Viennese Jewish community’s humanitarian efforts.
Lviv’s Golden Rose.
American Jews once marked the holiday in extravagant style.
A scholar of philosophy joins us to take a close look at the book of Esther, and the lessons it has to teach about human success and divine providence.
The star of this week’s Purim story gets her point across because of the way she tells certain truths.
From 15th-century Iberia.