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How to navigate the Court of Trump? Esther’s pragmatism vs. Vashti’s principles
For children, the Book of Esther is a fairy tale — of kings, queens, beauty contests and the foiled plans of a dastardly ...
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I’m a rabbi. Here’s why I’m boycotting the megillah reading for Purim this year
The holiday of Purim has historically been a holiday of revelry and upside-down merriment, arriving as it does in concert ...
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We Are Commanded to Remember Women on Shabbat Zachor: Parshat Tetzaveh
REMEMBER This Shabbat is Shabbat Zachor. The reason it is called that is because we read a passage from Deuteronomy and also ...
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Esther is the real queen of the art of the deal
Queen Vashti, the royal one by blood and thus the source of Ahasuerus’ kingship, says an emphatic “No!” to being paraded around unclothed when asked (and is ultimately gravely punished for ...
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Purim: Anti-semitism and Zionism
Rabbi Yosi says (the failure of) Haman’s power is our authority. Jews should always remember and celebrate our survival and our enemy’s downfall; not with hate, but by joy. Rabbi Simeon says it was ...