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 ...

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 ...

Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi—specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of ...

In ancient Persia, the charming Jewish orphan for whom the book is named wins King Ahasuerus’s beauty pageant and becomes queen of a massive empire, while keeping her Jewishness secret.

King Ahasuerus gets rid of his wife because she didn't follow orders. His new wife, Esther, is Jewish, but King Ahasuerus doesn't know that. Esther's cousin, Mordecai, finds out two people who ...

Esther, the story goes, was such a looker she wound up marrying King Ahasuerus, who ruled an empire that stretched from India to Ethiopia, between 486-465 B.C. He had no idea that she was Jewish.

In 499-449 BCE, King Ahasuerus established a coalition of countries – from India to Ethiopia – which launched the Greco-Persian Wars, aiming to expand the Persian Empire westward. ^Persia was ...

The biblical text, set in ancient Persia during the reign of Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes), recounts an attempt to exterminate the Jews. The plan is conceived by Haman, a fanatically ...

Esther before Ahasuerus, Jacopo del Sellaio (1442–1493), tempera on panel. A new exhibition opening this week at the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara ...