Video shows Yehuda Gerami dancing with students, reading megillah scroll at site believed by local community to be in ancient ...

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The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are ...

Purim is a strange holiday for Jews, and nothing is stranger than its central piece: Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther). We ...

Today is the Fast of Esther. For the hostages still alive in Gaza, every day is the Fast of Esther. Only they, unlike us, don ...

While the book is a work of fiction, Sendowski ensures that it remains faithful to the historical and textual integrity of ...

ToI's diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples -- and why Israel was arming Iran ...

On Purim, Jews celebrate a long-ago victory over hatred, but it's worth praying too for the frustration of some modern ...

What does it look like to navigate Purim in the Court of Trump? Queens Vashti and Esther present different models.

‘The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt’ The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan Through August 10 ...

Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew word “hidden,” was everywhere. In the new exhibition, The Book of Esther in ...