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

Helen Ready’s 1971 women’s liberation anthem, “I Am Woman Hear Me Roar,” comes to mind when I think of Purim. Remember Esther ...

Step one – as epitomized by Purim – is the struggle to bring the Jews together, to unite as a loving community, albeit in a ...

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...

In the midst of all the noise, may we also tune our hearts to the quieter frequencies: the acts of hidden kindness, the ...

The celebration of Purim, a traditional Jewish holiday that all are welcome to join, is one of Eckerd Hillel’s most fun and ...

Most of the people I speak with these days are overwhelmed and stressed beyond anything they had previously known. American ...

I attended the reading of the Book of Esther in the Zion community in Jerusalem, a community whose values are my values: ...

Also Saturday, Israel's military said it removed a platoon of soldiers from Gaza who were seen in a video on social media opening fire during a celebration of the Jewish holiday of Purim ... customary ...

Today, besides Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ayatollah Khamenei, we are hated by U.N. officials and innumerable college faculty, students, commentators, journalists, and government officials around the world.

Photos and story by Robert Kalfus This year’s Purim festivities at Chabad of Yonkers saw people dressed in all individual ...