hayman

With Purim just a grogger’s turn away on March 19, it\’s time to reroll the scroll of Esther and take another look at the whole megillah. It\’s a story with characters so lifelike, I should quote them. That would be news. But lacking a time machine, I was still able to go to the source to hear what Mordecai, Esther, Haman and Vashti have to say: I interviewed prominent people — Jews and a non-Jew — whose names either come from the Megillah or sound like they are straight from the scroll: