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

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

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

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

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

Purim traditions include reading the Megillah, exchanging food gifts, giving to the needy, and dressing in costumes.

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

The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

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

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