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.

Yiddish World VIDEO: Hasidic Jew’s trip to Iran to find Queen Esther’s tomb Abraham Schwartz had no idea that very soon Iran would be at war with Israel and a trip like this would be impossible ...

In the original Purim story, through a series of serendipitous events — Mordechai saves the Persian Emperor’s life from would-be assassins of the palace guard, Esther becomes the Persian ...

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

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

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...

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

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 ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...