Leah Grisham
This year, with some unlikely help from Greta Gerwig’s film Barbie, I finally have the words to explain why honoring Queen Esther with the name Hadassah is so important to me.
Honoring Queen Esther’s Secret Self
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Crunching Poppyseeds on Purim
Susan Barocas
These flaky, gluten-free cookies are eaten for Norouz, the Persian New Year, and by Persian Jews for the holiday of Purim since both holidays often fall close together on the calendar.
Uplifting Unnamed Women
Naima Hirsch Gelman
In the Purim story, and in American society after Dobbs.
An Open Letter from Vashti to Her Successor
Heather Paul
I never wanted to be a queen. I only wanted to be Vashti.
#MeToo and the Women of the Bible
Alicia Jo Rabins
We think of the #metoo movement as a contemporary phenomenon. But in truth, women have been speaking up for a long time. Millennia, at least.