The timing of Israel’s strike, days before the holiday, prompted religious and political figures to invoke themes from the ...

According to the tradition of the Jews of Persia, after Haman’s downfall, hostility toward the Jews intensified, and ...

Israel attack on Iran began, Jews around the world celebrated Purim, the ancient feast commemorating Esther’s rescue of the Jews from Haman of P ...

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a ...

Jan Lievens, "The Feast of Esther" (c. 1625), oil on canvas (image courtesy North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh / Bridgeman Images) The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibition, The Book of Esther in the ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, starting Saturday evening, centers on the biblical Book of Esther. Set during the ancient Persian Empire, the story recounts how King Ahasuerus marries the beautiful ...

The holiday of Purim is popular among the Jewish community for various reasons — delicious feasting and hamantaschen, bright and colorful costumes, and festive songs and spiels abound. This night of ...