The Book of Esther, Ancient Persia, and the Shadow of Modern Iran
The Book of Esther is not just a story about a distant past, it is a reminder that dangerous rhetoric can become policy, and that policy can become reality.
The Book of Esther is not just a story about a distant past, it is a reminder that dangerous rhetoric can become policy, and that policy can become reality.
If history teaches us anything, it’s that great ideas seem wonderful until the moment they need to be implemented.
This is a musical about an era in which politics is entertainment, and entertainment is policy. An era in which those who refuse to sing are simply not heard.
What is actually left in the Israeli left today – besides the almost obsessive-hysterical-therapeutic desire to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from Balfour, from the Knesset, from history, and from their feed.