What is Purim?

What is Purim?
From myJewishLearning.com

From the Hartman Institute: Purim Educational Materials

Culture and practice
Purim: Strangest of the chagim
Why so much drinking and partying in Megillah?

God and fate
Two modern thinkers on why God is hidden in Megillah
Who controls our fate; what controls our world?

Women and men
Women in Shushan: Playing by the rules and winning
The ultimate supermodel: Esther or Vashti?
Esther: Ornament fit for a king
Ahashverosh unmanned: Who really controls his relationships?

Purim and politics
Haman and Jewish question – relevant today
Zionism and Diaspora politics after Haman
Arthur Szyk: Art changed pre- and post-Shoah