Purim is a Jewish holiday coming up on March 9-10, with roots going back to very old Babylonian New Year celebrations and the Zoroastrian New Year. And it’s a perfect story for #WomensHistoryMonth, because it features Queen Esther! We’ve got a short article explaining what Purim is and how people celebrate it here:
For the Bible story of Queen Esther and Haman – the Purim story – we have a short retelling of it here: