Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

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What the queen means to Jewish tradition and to resisting tyranny and persecution—in the seventeenth century and today.

Rabbi Daniel Swartz says Purim is one of the most festive of all Jewish holidays. It is a time to retell the story of the Book of Esther and relate its messages to today.

Festivities included a traditional reading of the Book of Esther, a living Greek statue, a bazookie player, “Olympic Games,” a clay sculpture craft table, an olive tasting station and a buffet of ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are encouraged — in synagogue no less — as Jews gather for a public reading of the ...

As we celebrate Purim, let's remember that neither Elon Musk nor Mahmoud Kahlil are straightforward heroes. Nor are they villains, either.

A special feature of the exhibition is the return of a 17th-century parchment scroll of the Book of Esther, produced in Ferrara.

The literal Hebrew translation of Megillat Esther, or Book of Esther, which is read on Purim, means the revealing of what is hidden.

What can we learn from the Purim story that can help us navigate living with this partial redemption? How do we move to a paradigm of complete redemption?