When I was a child and recited on the High Holy Days the long, repeating list of alphabetical transgressions, I did not even know what most of them…

The story of Purim—with its fairy-tale rendering of a rebellious queen and the beautiful Jewish woman who takes her place, of a king who is

Whether you think Vashti or Esther is the hero of the Purim story, you will not find a resolution to today’s beauty dilemma by the