Items with the category: Purim | Jewish Book Council

Cover of Esther's Magical Mystery Torah

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

Cover of Queen Vashti’s Comfy Pants

Queen Vashti’s Comfy Pants

Leah Rachel Berkowitz, Ruth Bennett (illus.)

Cover of Esther Didn’t Dream of Being Queen

Esther Didn’t Dream of Being Queen

Allison Ofanansky, Valentina Belloni (illus.)

Excerpt

Excerpt: Esther in America

Stuart Halpern

February 22, 2021

Cover of Esther in America

Esther in America

Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern (editor)

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

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Essay

Hidden Heroine: Queen Esther in Children’s Books

Emily Schneider

March 9, 2020

Cover of Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile

Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile

Dr. Erica Brown

Cover of Purim Chicken

Margery Cuyler; Puy Pinillos, illus.

Cover of Not for all the Hamantaschen in Town

Not for all the Hamantaschen in Town

Laura Aron Milhander; Inna Chernyak, illus.

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

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