Posts Tagged: King Ahasuerus
Dispatch from a Rampaging Camel: Purim 2013 Snapshots
The headlines from Purim 5773 were fat, loud and ominous. First, from the West Bank, dire reports of growing tensions; demonstrations in Ramallah and Hebron...
Purim Guide for the Perplexed 2013
1. "Purimfest 1946" were the last words of Julius Streicher, the Nazi propaganda chief, as he approached the hanging gallows (Newsweek magazine,...
Iran and Israel, It’s Purim All Over Again
Some 2,000 years ago, the Jewish people, Exiled in the vast empire of Persia faced a plot engineered by the king's chief minister to annihilate...