As Achashverosh becomes increasingly paranoid, he determines to do away with court politics and factional intrigue by purging ...

Achashverosh is a king that wants to reward Mordechai the Jew for saving his life, so he commands that Mordechai should be paraded all over town, ...

But the Talmud speaks in the present tense here. We, too, remain enslaved to Achashverosh because we are still too often stuck in the same failure of imagination that he demonstrates.

Anti-Semitism, the Talmud is telling us, is multilayered, with a "body" and a "soul." The "body," or the outer, external layer of anti-Semitism as personified by Achashverosh, sees Jews as a "mound." ...

About 2,500 years ago, the leadership of the strongest country in the world (Persia) passed to a usurper, Achashverosh. This wealthy man was a complete outsider to the political establishment of ...

Israel National News; Opeds; The difference between Trump and Achashverosh; The difference between Trump and Achashverosh Yaakov Meidan questions Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein's attack on Donald Trump.

When one watches the Iranian madman Ahmadinejad rant and rave about annihilating every Jewish man, woman and child in Israel, it brings to mind a story that will be read shortly on the Purim holida… ...

Achashverosh, the king of Persia in the mid-300s B.C., got drunk and ordered his wife Vashti, renowned for her beauty and a direct descendant of Nebuchadnezzar, to show up in all her glory.

Achashverosh, moreover, ends up being manipulated by a woman, our reticent, modest heroine Esther, and he is led by her to dispatch the Jews’ mortal enemy, Haman, ...

In the Purim story, Vashti’s expulsion, we know, is the result of her refusal to present herself before King Achashverosh. The text is ambiguous about the reason for her refusal, leaving much ...

Rather, she reveals her Judaism and begs Achashverosh to save her people. Esther’s lesson remains relevant today. We should refuse to hide in safety and instead choose to utilize our privilege ...