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

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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 ...

Visitors of the exhibit will be treated to the sight of an extremely rare 17th century parchment scroll made in Ferrara by ...

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

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

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

The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.

Film Review from the 32nd Annual South by South West Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Jacy Mairs and starring ...

You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master who invented realism in the 17th century. Yet “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” a delectably ...