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

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The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are ...

Purim is a strange holiday for Jews, and nothing is stranger than its central piece: Megillat Esther (the Book of Esther). We ...

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

Ori Danino saved many lives at the Supernova music festival before being murdered in Gazan bondage.The post Herzog attends ...

ToI's diplomatic reporter talks about the complex historical ties between the two peoples -- and why Israel was arming Iran ...

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

‘The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt’ The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave., Manhattan Through August 10 ...

Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew word “hidden,” was everywhere. In the new exhibition, The Book of Esther in ...