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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

One of my favorite times of the year is coming soon. Each year, I volunteer at the annual Temple Emanu-El of San Diego’s ...

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 ...