Feb 25, 2026
What can we learn from reading Megillat Esther in light of today?
The Purim story centers on the Jews of Persia and the Persian Empire, yet many Jews had returned to Judea and were already building the Second Temple there. Join Elana Stein Hain as she explores this additional layer to the story as a lens for considering tensions between Israel and the Diaspora today: how Jews living in these different places viewed each other and what tensions might lie just beneath the surface.
