The Book of Esther and the Haggadah tell of Jewish victories and the punishment of Jewish enemies. In 2024, they are prescient, agonizing and troubling as never before.

The Book of Esther: Word for WORD Bible Comic (Book 5) by Simon Amadeus Pillario, Leslie Wilmer Simonin and Ryan Esch. Simon Amadeus Pillario writes, Our new graphic novel has launched in October ...

The Book of Esther tells how she and her pious cousin, Mordecai, defeated the scheming Haman, a powerful royal adviser, thereby saving the Jewish people from annihilation.

Maggid books has just published an excellent comprehensive 493-page study of the biblical book Esther called “Esther: Power, Fate, and Fragility in Exile” by Dr. Erica Brown, an award-winning ...

To avoid getting into a whole megillah, this brief summary, which includes selections from the midrash, assumes some basic acquaintance with the Biblical Book of Esther (Megillat Esther).The key ...

The Book of Esther, read every year on Purim, is famous not just for what it contains, but for what it does not contain: the name of God. Unlike the other books in the Bible, ...

They then will skim through the Book of Esther, realize that Judaism actually is the diametric anti-Thesis of political liberalism, and will return to whatever false gods they worship.

The Book of Esther is a story with something for everyone: court intrigue, sexual manipulation, and cunning plots foiled just in the nick of time. Depending on one’s point of view, ...

The Book of Esther is also full to the brim with coded knowledge, usually in Persian. The name Vashti means “the best,” making the comparison between the former queen and our heroine funny.

In the Book of Esther, we uncover the heroic metamorphosis of the heroine, who changes her nation’s destiny by becoming conscious of her religious legacy. Israeli and Italian artists, ...