Purim, a Jewish holiday rooted in the ancient story of Esther, is celebrated worldwide with costumes, feasts, and acts of charity. From street parties in Israel to community gatherings in Slovenia and ...

Learning Tree Homeschool Fellowship will present “Esther,” a musical, at 7 p.m. today and Saturday, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, at ...

The Shrine of Esther and Mordechai is a famous Jewish pilgrimage site just off Eman Khomeini Square in the city of Hamadan in ...

Of course, if the ceasefire holds, this would mean that the war had run for a course of 40 days more or less, a time period ...

Christian author and broadcaster Eric Metaxas accused political commentator Tucker Carlson on Wednesday of satanically inverting the message of the book of Esther when he criticized applying it to ...

The reckless use of religion by state actors across all three Abrahamic faiths as a means of justifying the war in Iran has not been criticized as pointedly as its breach of international law.

It is the centerpiece, the centrifuge around which the rest of the holiday of Purim revolves: the scroll of Esther. And the critical actions of the account — the coronation of a queen hiding her ...

There was magic in the air and plenty of booing (the good kind!) as the Sholom of West Essex community gathered at the group’s temple in Cedar Grove for a Purim celebration with a spirited spiel, ...

Bright costumes, hamantaschen pastries and the lively retelling of an ancient story make Purim one of the most joyful holidays on the Jewish calendar. This year, Purim fell on March 2 and 3.

Chabad House Palm Beach hosted a “Purim in Persia” event on March 2 at The Colony Hotel. The event, held in the hotel's ballroom, drew 150 people and included a public reading of the Megillah — the ...