Video shows Yehuda Gerami dancing with students, reading megillah scroll at site believed by local community to be in ancient ...

Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes, read the Book of Esther, which tells the story of the Jewish ...

The soldiers filmed themselves firing upon mention of Purim villain Haman; army says their behavior was 'contrary to IDF ...

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The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are encouraged — in synagogue no less — as Jews gather for a public reading of the ...

Jewish communities worldwide celebrated Purim, a joyous holiday that includes dressing up in costume, giving charity, and ...

Esther, whose name shares a root with the Hebrew word “hidden,” was everywhere. In the new exhibition, The Book of Esther in ...

While the book is a work of fiction, Sendowski ensures that it remains faithful to the historical and textual integrity of ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest ...