An ancient fertility festival or a masquerade ball? Lilith explores the breadth and depth of this eternally surprising holiday.

Rosie the Riveter as Queen Esther?
Winter 2007-2008
by Susan Sapiro
Feminism re-jigs U.S. Judaism

Purim: Take Back the Night
Spring 1998
by Rabbi Susan Schnur

• Our [Meaning Women’s] Book of Esther Problem
• From Prehistoric Cave Art to Your Cookie Pan
• The Once and Future Womantasch
• The Womantasch Triangle

And Vashti Refused: A Gay Man Find a Biblical Role Model
Winter 1992
by Gary David Comstock
A gay man finds a role model in the anti-heroine of the Purim story.