For example, we call the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, “aseret yemei teshuvah,” the 10 Days of Repentance, with ...

Purim is a Jewish holiday that celebrates events told in the Book of Esther. Synagogues throughout the island this week marked the Jewish holiday of Purim with festive celebrations. The holiday ho ...

Thousands come to Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on Thursday night for the Purim eve reading of the Book of Esther, which tells ...

One of the staples of Purim is the reading of The Megillah, also known as The Book of Esther. It's done once on Purim night (this year, that'd be the evening of March 13) and once on Purim day ...

(RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and ... as Jews gather for a public reading of the biblical Book of Esther. The Esther story is told as a children’s tale, in ...

He describes the Jews of the Purim story as being genocidal: The book of Esther doesn’t end with Haman’s death. It continues because although Haman is gone, his edict to kill the Jews remains.

This week, Jews worldwide will celebrate the festival of Purim. It is a joyful holiday replete with lively rituals, especially the exuberant public reading of the Book of Esther. The biblical text ...

The Book of Esther ends with the hero and her uncle Mordechai writing letters describing the Purim holiday to far-flung Jewish communities. While much attention is paid to the way the non-Jewish ...