We will trace the fascinating history of how the heroine of Purim has powered revolutionaries and presidents, political commentators and court officials – in the US and across Europe.
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern serves as the senior advisor to the provost as well as the deputy director and chief strategy officer of the Zahava and Moshael J. Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. He has lectured across the US, Europe, Israel and Australia and is the editor of nineteen books, including the newly released Jewish Roots of American Liberty, as well as The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada, Esther in America and Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land: The Hebrew Bible in the United States. His award-winning writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, Newsweek, the American Bible Society, Tablet, Jewish Review of Books, Tradition, First Things, The Washington Free Beacon, Sapir, City Journal, ARC, The Jewish Journal, JTA, and The Jerusalem Post.
