True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

The show argues that the biblical narrative of Purim — in which Esther, a Jewish queen, risks her life to go before the king and save her people from annihilation — was interpreted as a symbol ...

Risking her life, she confessed to the king that she was not a gentile after all, and she persuaded him to save her people. You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn ...

In the Book of Esther, a drunk King Ahasuerus has his wife, Queen Vashti, killed for disobeying him when he requested that she show herself at a party (with some interpretations being that he ...

(RNS) — The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza. (RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and ...

The biblical text, set in ancient Persia during the reign of Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes), recounts ... and his cousin Esther, the Jewish heroine who becomes Ahasuerus’s queen.

a scene of the biblical Queen Esther approaching her husband the king. In galleries, you could see the queen, who Jews commemorate every Purim for her salvation of the Jewish people in ancient ...

the events in Jewish history where Queen Esther put her life on the line to save her people from certain death. Briefly, in the story, which can be found in The Book of Esther, an exalted adviser to ...

which celebrates the triumph of the Jewish Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai over the evil Haman, advisor to the king of ancient Persia, who had made a decree to kill the Jews in the city of ...