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

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

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 ...

Download PDF Andreas Adriano profiles MIT’s J-PAL, where Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are reinventing development economics Some seemingly great development ideas don’t work out as expected. One ...

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

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

The millennia-old community of some 15,000, the Mideast's largest outside Israel, condemns Israel's preemptive strikes on the ...

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

On the 23rd day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, Queen Esther is said to have allowed the Jews of Persia to fight back against ...

Known for its hostility to Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran is also home to a longstanding Jewish community.

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 ...