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Purim

Essay

Cel­e­brat­ing Purim in a Slave Society

Avi­va Ben-Ur
February 26, 2021
Non­fic­tion
Esther in America
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern (editor)
Chil­dren’s
Queen Vashti’s Com­fy Pants
Leah Rachel Berkowitz, Ruth Bennett (illus.)
Chil­dren’s
Esther Didn’t Dream of Being Queen
Allison Ofanansky, Valentina Belloni (illus.)
Excerpt

Excerpt: Esther in America

Stu Halpern
February 22, 2021
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
Fic­tion
The Book of V. 
Anna Solomon
Essay

Hid­den Hero­ine: Queen Esther in Children’s Books

Emi­ly Schneider
March 9, 2020
Non­fic­tion
Esther: Pow­er, Fate and Fragili­ty in Exile
Dr. Erica Brown
Chil­dren’s
Purim Chick­en
Margery Cuyler; Puy Pinillos, illus.
Chil­dren’s
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
Essay

What Does Purim Mean to My Autis­tic Son?

Liane Kupfer­berg Carter is the author of Ketchup Is My Favorite Veg­etable: A Fam­i­ly Grows Up With Autism. This week she begins an exclu­sive series on cel­e­brat­ing the…
Liane Kupfer­berg Carter
March 21, 2016
Non­fic­tion
God and Pol­i­tics in Esther
Yoram Hazony

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