In galleries, you could see the queen, who Jews commemorate ... an 80 year war for independence from Spain, Esther was a star ...

Dehavilland Ford, a Texas pastor, has long felt a kinship with Queen Esther. This fall ... costumes meant to evoke the opulence of ancient Persia. It was spectacle and sermon all in one, a ...

We have just passed the Jewish holiday of Purim, a time to commemorate the story of Queen Esther, who saved the Jewish people ...

Esther, according to the biblical story, is a young Jewish woman who becomes the queen of Persia, risks her life and saves her people, popular even as a Purim costume. Both of us have worn her ...

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther ... conceived a plot to eradicate the Jews of Persia. Esther was stirred to action, believing she existed precisely ...

An oil painting by Gerrit van Honthorst, “Portrait of Elizabeth Stuart as Esther,” renders the Queen of Bohemia in the style of the Persian ruler and insists on a lineage of royalty. “Esther and ...

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...

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