The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Esther, which recounts the story of Purim, does not directly mention God. “There was not splitting of the sea or water turning into blood,” Lipskier said.

For those who know the Purim story in the Book of Esther, the kind of miracles and wonders we are seeing will be familiar. In ...

Just three months ago, right before Purim, Abraham Schwartz — an adventurous, effusive young man from the Hasidic community — undertook a quest that was dear to his heart. He flew to Iran to find the ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the biblical significance behind the name of Israel's military ...

In these turbulent times, when the Middle East is literally on fire with missiles from modern-day Persia and fighter planes ...

Today, readers of the Bible are reading their newspapers and seeing history repeat itself. Centuries after Haman’s genocidal antisemitism, the ruler of Iran (the modern name of ancient Persia), Ali ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

The U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites is the latest in the Israel-Iran conflict that some say echoes the biblical enemy ...

The Romaniote Jews of Ioannina are a Greek-speaking ethnic Jewish community native to Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean ...

Commit to holding onto this unity. Commit to staying civilized and connected even when you disagree politically, religiously, ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...