The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are ...
Video shows Yehuda Gerami dancing with students, reading megillah scroll at site believed by local community to be in ancient ...
While the book is a work of fiction, Sendowski ensures that it remains faithful to the historical and textual integrity of ...
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Purim is a strange holiday for Jews, and nothing is stranger than its central piece: Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther). We ...
The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest ...
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 ...
Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew word “hidden,” was everywhere. In the new exhibition, The Book of Esther in ...