How else to interpret the wildly overblown attention placed on the shooting of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo? For those who were either hiding under a rock or paying tribute to fallen soldiers ...

While the book is a work of fiction, Sendowski ensures that it remains faithful to the historical and textual integrity of the Megillah. At the same time, he brings the events to life in a way ...

(JTA) — It’s the whole megillah, and more. This month an Israeli artist broke the Guinness World Record for longest megillah, the scroll that tells the story behind the Purim holiday.

The Megillah ends in blood because Achashverosh locks the Jews and his other subjects into a zero-sum game, in which each must either kill or be killed. This stance invites tragedy. Indeed ...

This is because Mordechai and Esther had to write the Megillah under the scrutiny of the antisemitic censures of Persia and Medes – for the Megillat Esther was included in its entirety in the ...