The event includes a pizza and potluck dinner, Purim Spiel, and a multilingual Megillah reading. Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D ...

Esther’s greatness lies not only in her willingness to speak truth to power, but in choosing the strategic moment to do so.

I became an activist because I saw pollution and environmental racism afflicting my own community, as those in power targeted ...

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the Jewish festival of Purim and why a big part of it is ...

At the center of Hamadan, Iran, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, stands the holiest site for Jews ...

But these early rabbinic sources from the second and third centuries suggest that this may not always have been self-evident.

The Watermill Theatre has revealed the cast for the world premiere of Victoria: A Queen Unbound, a new play by Daisy Goodwin, ...

Jewish Day School of the Lehigh Valley in Allentown holds a Purim celebration Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026. Purim celebrates the ...

How many books of the Tanach begin with a story made for the tabloids? The Book of Esther jumps right in with a dramatic ...

For more than four decades, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers has made a ritual of reinvention, crafting Purim spiels that spoof the biggest names in popular culture with music and wit. While “A Hard Night’s ...

Purim is not only a celebration of Jewish survival. It is a political handbook. The Book of Esther reads less like ancient folklore and more like a case study in how to endure — and outmaneuver — ...