Postwar issues of a Yiddish journal for children brought the history of Purim to the present

The Hebrew version we read doesn’t mention God, and avoids theology. But the ancient Greek versions of the story took a very different approach.

In Tractate Megillah, the Talmud sends us a very personal note on faith

Purim’s bloody story of vengeance is a necessary reminder about how justice really works

As a new convert, I’ve now celebrated the entire cycle of Jewish holidays for the first time—but in a way I’d never expected

What the late comedian can teach us about Purim

Rewriting the story of Vashti

Growing up in Queens, I tried to hide my Iranian roots. But my mother had other ideas.

A careful rethinking of a challenging Jewish narrative, for Purim

From Queen Elizabeth to Abraham Lincoln, the story of Purim has shaped our most contentious debates

Creating a new kind of Megillah—using the historic Birds’ Head Haggadah as inspiration

Rokhl’s Golden City: Eritrean detainees read Isaac Bashevis Singer, and the mother tongue meets the mother-land

How the story of Purim is told in Christian scripture, and how Martin Luther became Esther’s enemy

For one of the founding practitioners of Israel’s cross-dressing performance art—chased out to Tel Aviv by ultra-Orthodox antipathy—Purim is just another day to do battle for her right to be her

A childhood costume that once concealed what I wanted to hide now reveals what I want to hold tight