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Despite living in an era of equality and opportunities, it is still painful to discover that today, women are still not equally seated at the decision-making tables. This week we celebrated Purim - a ...

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There’s no question that Purim is Judaism’s most raucous, irreverent holiday. What with the costumes, ever more outlandish as years go by; the late-night partying with all too much alcoholic ...

More than two thousand years ago, in the kingdom of Persia—modern-day Iran—a young Jewish woman found herself in a palace she did not choose, in a position she did not seek, facing a moment that would ...

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(RNS) — I have written a great deal about antisemitism lately — for good reason. But opposite that, philosemitism refers to when gentiles love, admire and feel a sense of solidarity with the Jewish ...

Novelist John Irving says he knew he was on track when he figured out how “Queen Esther” would end. Now he faced a new challenge: How the story began. “Like all my novels, that’s the thing I see most ...

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“Queen Esther” is a sequel of sorts to “The Cider House Rules” (1985), one of John Irving’s most popular novels and the basis for a successful 1999 film. Dr. Larch, the man charged with making orphans ...

“I work my way back through a story’s timeline, from where I want it to end. My first chapters often change — my last chapters never have,” the New Hampshire native said in a recent phone interview.