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Culture Hello, my name is Vashti: Meet a museum founder, a singer, an author and an Olympian
These modern-day Vashtis bear the name of the woman who paved the way for Purim’s Queen Esther
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Culture When is Purim 2023?
If you're still searching for a Purim costume, time is running out
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Fast Forward Celebrate a fabulous — and fabulist — Purim with Brooklyn synagogue’s ‘Night of 1000 Santos’
What better way to celebrate the holiday than honoring George Santos, who claims to be a member of Esther and Mordecai’s tribe?
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Opinion Queen Esther is a Jewish hero, but Queen Vashti is the feminist icon we need right now
This Purim, let’s take a moment to appreciate one of the great reputational rehabilitations in my Jewish lifetime: Queen Vashti. We know how the story goes: King Ahashuerus, partying with his friends and “merry with wine,” called for Queen Vashti to display her beauty. Vashti refused to obey her husband and was never to be…
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Fast Forward ‘Free the gays:’ Orthodox high schoolers, led by rabbi, take Purim skit too far
With Purim approaching last week, a number of Jewish organizations collaborated on a flyer that encouraged people to exercise sensitivity in their costumes. But one Orthodox high school didn’t get the memo. In a video that circulated on social media Tuesday, boys from Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles, or YULA, dressed up for…
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Culture A Rikers Island Purim story: Finding God behind the gates
A Jewish corrections officer finds a way to observe the holiday — and share the mitzvah
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Food An L.A. doctor revives the tradition of Persian Jewish winemaking
Wine flows freely in the ancient story of Purim, which takes place in ancient Persian. Buzzed on wine, King Ahasuerus asks the beautiful Vashti to come party. At two other wine-soaked feasts, the heroine Esther sways the king against the evil Haman. Wine all but disappeared from modern-day Iran following the country’s takeover by Muslim…
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