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How to navigate the Court of Trump? Esther’s pragmatism vs. Vashti’s principles
For children, the Book of Esther is a fairy tale — of kings, queens, beauty contests and the foiled plans of a dastardly ...
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I’m a rabbi. Here’s why I’m boycotting the megillah reading for Purim this year
The holiday of Purim has historically been a holiday of revelry and upside-down merriment, arriving as it does in concert ...
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We Are Commanded to Remember Women on Shabbat Zachor: Parshat Tetzaveh
REMEMBER This Shabbat is Shabbat Zachor. The reason it is called that is because we read a passage from Deuteronomy and also ...
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Nell Nolan: Prophets of Persia Ball, Mithras, Flora French Atlanteans queen
All was readied for the visit of victorious Prince Jean Bernadotte of Pontecorvo, when the King and Queen of Holland ... the Prophets of Persia recalled this gala fete within the context of ...