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The Seventh Handmaiden

Esther’s Magical Mystery Torah

Rabbi Jonathan Leener, Jessica Tamar Deutsch (illus.)

Essay

Celebrating Purim in a Slave Society

Aviva Ben-Ur

February 26, 2021

Excerpt

Excerpt: Esther in America

Stu Halpern

February 22, 2021

Esther in America

Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern (editor)

Queen Vashti’s Comfy Pants

Leah Rachel Berkowitz, Ruth Bennett (illus.)

Esther Didn’t Dream of Being Queen

Allison Ofanansky, Valentina Belloni (illus.)

Excerpt

Excerpt: Eat Something

Rachel Levin

February 18, 2021

Poetry

Esther’s Angels

Wendy Dickstein

August 24, 2020

Essay

‘The Obvious Heroine’: Anna Solomon on the Book of Esther

Anna Solomon

May 4, 2020

The Book of V.

Essay

Hidden Heroine: Queen Esther in Children’s Books

Emily Schneider

March 9, 2020

Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile

Dr. Erica Brown

Purim Chicken

Margery Cuyler; Puy Pinillos, illus.

Not for all the Hamantaschen in Town

Laura Aron Milhander; Inna Chernyak, illus.

Essay

Making Sense of Esther: Beyond Beauty

Rebecca Kanner’s second novel, Esther, is an adaptation of the story of the Megillah. With Purim on the horizon, Rebecca will be blogging here all week as part of the…

Rebecca Kanner

March 21, 2016