For children, the Book of Esther is a fairy tale — of kings, queens, beauty contests and the foiled plans of a dastardly ...

The holiday of Purim has historically been a holiday of revelry and upside-down merriment, arriving as it does in concert ...

Queen Vashti, the royal one by blood and thus the source of Ahasuerus’ kingship, says an emphatic “No!” to being paraded around unclothed when asked (and is ultimately gravely punished for ...

On the seventh day, when the king was merry with wine, he told his seven eunuchs in attendance on King Ahasuerus, to bring Queen Vashti before the king wearing a royal diadem, to display her ...