Topic Tags: Esther

“Teach us always to choose life, to pursue justice, / and to rise above vengeance.”

A person poem told from Vashti’s perspective

“Ribono shel Olam / Make me like our mothers and heroines…”

“And every year we lift our voice To celebrate, to laugh, and to rejoice!”

“This is the first year I thought, how old were those children?”

Karen Webber delivers a micro version of ‘the whole megillah’ in her performance piece.

“Masks help us imagine / it’s history and only our story…”

An original midrash in word and art from Vashti’s perspective.

This Purim ritual centers on Queen Esther’s strengths and characteristics.

A teaching about how G-d/Shekhinah is present in the Purim story through Her human partners, Queens Vashti and Esther.