Purim is the only celebration in Judaism with an entire biblical book about its origins. The Book of Esther tells how she and her pious cousin, Mordecai, defeated the scheming Haman, a powerful ...

However, Esther 9:20 explicitly mentions that “Mordecai wrote these things,” i.e., a recapitulation of events “in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the ...

The Book of Esther and the Haggadah tell of Jewish victories and the punishment of Jewish enemies. In 2024, they are prescient, agonizing and troubling as never before.

The Book of Esther says celebrate it in the twelfth month of the year, so they do. To this day, the Karaites communities celebrate Purim on what would be Purim Katan for most other Jews.

Is the Book of Esther repeating itself? Jewish ultra-Orthodox men and children, some wearing costumes, celebrate the festival of Purim at a synagogue in Bnei Brak, Israel, March 17, 2022.

The Jewish holiday of Purim, starting Saturday evening, centers on the biblical Book of Esther. Set during the ancient Persian Empire, the story recounts how King Ahasuerus marries the beautiful ...

Esther is an unusual biblical book, the only one that doesn't mention God. Also missing: prayer, ritual and other Jewish religious practices. The tone is not only secular but sometimes a bit bawdy.

The biblical story for the holiday of Purim is the Book of Esther, known as the Scroll of Esther, which recounts the events in Persia that led to the saving of the Jewish people, with Queen Esther ...

The Book of Esther tells of two royal heroes who demonstrated leadership and authority in very different ways. Vashti, the incumbent queen, defied her husband’s demand to display her beauty in ...

At the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, 5601 S Braeswood, an informative discussion with Rabbi Barry Gelman at the JCC centers on “Women of the Book of Esther” at noon March 16.

He has chanted the Megillat Esther at GNS ever since. Dr. Paul Brody and NSHA ’09 megillah student Eli Mendelson chanted the Gantze megillah at Great Neck Synagogue on Purim night.

The focus on Purim is appropriate — the women’s Zionist organization was founded on Purim in 1912 and named for the Hebrew name of Esther, the Purim heroine.