Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Esther denouncing Haman, who, according to the Purim story, attempted to have all Jews within the Persian Empire massacred.

This book is named after its principal character, Esther, the beautiful Jewish maiden whose vicissitudes at the court of Persia were instrumental in saving her people from extermination. In the Hebrew ...

You wouldn’t guess it from glancing around the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” but the book in question ends in carnage. The Persian king Ahasuerus ...

If I were assigned the task of writing a biblical-style script for a play or a movie, the Book of Esther is the last place I would turn for inspiration. The word “biblical” conjures up images of God, ...

This interview first appeared in the Jewish Week. Ivanka Trump and Monica Lewinsky were both compared to Queen Esther. Hillary Clinton called the star of the Purim story her favorite biblical heroine.

An etching of an 1865 painting by Edward Armitage (1817-1896) showing queen Esther condemning Haman. Etching from a 1877 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (Ken Wiedemann/Getty Images) The year is ...

The Book of Esther tells the remarkable story of a Jewish orphan who became Queen of Persia and saved her people from genocide through courage and divine providence. Esther’s bravery in approaching ...

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