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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 ...

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

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 ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest painters — among them Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. “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 villain. The story can be read as proto-feminist, with Esther saving her ...

In case of abuse, When my child was young, maybe four or five years old, I thought that the easiest way to prepare for Purim would be to read the biblical Book of Esther out loud, together.

Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew word “hidden,” was everywhere. A cabinet depicting scenes from the Book of Esther is one everyday object included in the exhibition.