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

The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are ...

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

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

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

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Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew word “hidden,” was everywhere. In the new exhibition, The Book of Esther in ...

For children, the Book of Esther is a fairy tale — of kings, queens, beauty contests and the foiled plans of a dastardly ...

Dehavilland Ford, a Texas pastor, has long felt a kinship with Queen Esther. This fall, just ahead of the presidential ...