An exhibition dedicated to Purim, one of the most joyful holidays of the Jewish calendar and especially to its Queen Esther.

The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

If you were to visit a home in Amsterdam in the 17th Century, you might find, in the kitchen, the library, or even inside the fireplace, a scene of the biblical Queen Esther approaching her ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest painters — among them Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. “The Book of Esther in ...

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

Why are any of us here? Esther was about to choose to transition to adulthood and hear the call to find meaning in her life. She starts as this quiet, passive queen, hiding her Jewish identity.

You might not instinctively pair Queen Esther with Rembrandt van Rijn ... Rembrandt’s “Jewish Heroine From the Hebrew Bible,” is sequestered in a small antechamber of its own, and if ...

JTA – Queen Esther is back in the news – and it’s not good news, and it’s got very little to do with the Jewish holiday of Purim, in whose story she is the starring character. Loved and ...

On this sacred holiday, we commemorate the harrowing tale of Haman’s genocidal plot to eradicate the Jewish people, a scheme thwarted by the courage and unshakable emunah (faith) of Esther and ...

It would seem to be the most improbable of scenarios: A young woman of impeccable Jewish virtue and pedigree is kidnapped, violated, and forced into an oppressive intermarriage with an unsavory ...