When the hot-tempered King Xerxes of Persia banishes Queen Vashti for not attending a banquet, the rulers’ attendants have beautiful virgins brought to the capital city of Susa.

At Esther’s urging, the king issues another decree granting the Jews the right to defend themselves. On the appointed day for their genocide, the Jews rise, fight back, and some 75,000 Persians ...

Esther’s beauty (and God’s favor) uniquely positioned her to have the ear of a despotic King, which was essential to save the Jews. Finally, we come to understand that Esther is spiritually ...

Queen Esther asked her cousin to round up all the Jews and have them fast, repent of their sins, and pray for three days before she made her risky approach into the king's chambers. At the end of ...

Some Jewish people honor Queen Esther's fasting and prayer period with a fast of their own during Purim. This year, those honoring the Purim fast (also called the Fast of Esther) will fast on ...

Facts and Fancies--Queen Esther and the Modern Jews. BROOKLYN NEWS. March 29, 1867 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from March 29, 1867, Page 8 Buy Reprints ...

VENAHAFOCHU. Upside down, inside out, wrong side up. A picture perfect description of my last year and a half. And a perfect excuse to write again, after ...

Queen Esther and Queen Rania: Different responses to Jewish genocide Jordan’s Queen Rania arrives for the opening of Parliament in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019.

THE GILDED CHAMBER: A Novel of Queen Esther Rebecca Kohn, . . Rugged Land, $23.95 (353pp) ISBN 978-1-59071-024-1 ...

This checks out. If Pence is Mordechai, Trump is King Ahasuerus, the one who discarded his wife. Ahaseuerus chose his next wife, Esther, in a beauty pageant, which also sounds Trumpian.

Near the end of his life, Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti, Bishop of Ferrara, commissioned Guercino to paint "Esther Before Ahasuerus", a canvas portraying Queen Esther's audience with King Ahasuerus, an ...

Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a trip to the Holy Land during the Jewish holiday of Purim, offered his diplomatic view that God anointed Trump a modern-day Queen Esther, the Purim ...