Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Queen Esther
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Culture A beautiful, Black, Queen Esther with braids — and readers are liking what they see
Whether intentionally or not, a newspaper geared toward an Orthodox audience makes a diversity statement
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Culture Is Kate Middleton’s disappearance a modern-day Purim story?
The Princess of Wales, like Esther of old, has been hidden away
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Opinion What the end of the Purim story teaches us about Israel’s war against Hamas
Liberal Jews must stop their hand-wringing about the need to wipe out our enemies
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Film & TV I watched 6 Christian Purim movies so you wouldn’t have to
Esther's story is a very Jewish one, but Christians have made more movies about it
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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 In a delightful new Purim film, Esther is a secret agent in Argentina
In its long history, the Purim story has had its fair share of reboots. Because, in every generation, a new Haman arrives to oppress us, that genocidal adviser has worn the face of Hitler and, when Stalin suffered a stroke on Purim, averting his own dire plans for Jews, he wore a different mustache entirely….
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Culture Can a Christian theater company put on a good Purim spiel?
I learned about "Queen Esther" from a TV ad. How could I resist going?
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