We’ve been here before. The effigy of Saddam Hussein has turned into the effigy of Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Their statues have been toppled, leaving uneasy regimes and tenuous questions about the ...

"The modern Jewish maxim is Incognito, ergo sum, 'I am invisible, therefore I am.'" -- Sidney Morganbesser. The Case for Genocide In the biblical Book of Esther, which we read and study on Purim, ...

I wonder if she could even breathe. As Queen Esther stood in the inner court, she waited to see what would happen. Under Persian law, anyone who approached the king without being invited could be put ...

Esther, the wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus, effectively concealed her Jewish identity until the prime minister Haman hatched a plot to annihilate the kingdom’s Jews. To save her people Esther ...

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