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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

On Purim, Jews celebrate a long-ago victory over hatred, but it's worth praying too for the frustration of some modern ...

At the same time, it’s crucial that as adults we pause and acknowledge that the underlying assumptions of Purim resonate ...

Dehavilland Ford, a Texas pastor, has long felt a kinship with Queen Esther. This fall, just ahead of the presidential election, she helped organize An Esther Call to the Mall, a march in Washington, ...