In galleries, you could see the queen, who Jews commemorate every Purim for her salvation of the Jewish people in ancient ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

A woman who rarely receives praise, though her disobedience was for an understandable reason and ultimately provided the ...

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the ... amid the sandy flats and cypress trees of ancient Persia (now mainly Iran), pretending to be ...

Dehavilland Ford, a Texas pastor, has long felt a kinship with Queen Esther. This fall ... costumes meant to evoke the opulence of ancient Persia. It was spectacle and sermon all in one, a ...

The story of Purim recounts how King Ahasuerus married Esther, a Jewish woman and the ... ones so cruelly taken from us. The Jews of ancient Persia were targeted, too. They lived in the Diaspora ...

The story can be read as proto-feminist, with Esther saving her people from within Persia’s patriarchy ... her Jewish identity to become queen. Ancient and modern commentators alike wrestle ...

Purim commemorates the dramatic events recorded in the Book of Esther, set in ancient Persia around the 5th century BCE. At ...