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

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

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

Jews this week celebrate Purim and read the Book of Esther, which tells the story their escape from annihilation at the hands ...

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 ...

An exhibit at the Jewish Museum shows how the example of Esther inspired artists, artisans and even royalty in the 17th ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest ...

Visitors of the exhibit will be treated to the sight of an extremely rare 17th century parchment scroll made in Ferrara by ...

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You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master who invented realism in the 17th century. Yet “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” a delectably ...