Purim

How Israeli women turned this Purim into a feminist holiday

With International Women’s Day falling a day before the holiday weekend this year, women all over Israel were feeling empowered.

By Andrew Tobin March 12, 2017 12:04 pm

Watch Joan Collins Play Queen Esther on the Big Screen

From Cecil B. DeMille’s Ten Commandments to the 2014 film Noah, epic stories of biblical proportion are no stranger to the silver screen. Yet one you may be less familiar with is the 1960 Italian/American film, Ester e il re, AKA Esther and the King. Starring Dame Joan Collins as Esther, the film tells the classic […]

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Was Stalin’s Death a Purim Miracle?

An evil man rises to power with a grand plan to eliminate the Jews, until a twist of fate—a miracle!—happens, and the evil man dies; the Jews survive. Who was that evil man? Well, it depends on what time period you’re talking about. Turns out there were some eerie similarities between Haman, the villain of […]

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