For months my young children have asked for the same made up story at bedtime every night as they cope with these anxious times… They want to hear about superheroes traveling in a spaceship to save the planet of the Unicorns from a terrible Unicorn Virus. And every night, exhausted from pandemic parenting, we tell…

Purim, the Jewish holiday which begins this year at sundown on February 25th, is marked in part by the reading of the Book of Esther. In it, Esther, who had kept her Judaism secret from the King, winds up becoming the new Queen. And so, she finds herself in a position to save the Jewish…