he always with derision would regard: “Please call me Mordecai the Jew,” he’d say. To say this word for Esther was most hard. That’s why she would prefer the sobriquet ...

Get your party on; Purim is almost here! The holiday is one of the most joyous and fun on the Jewish calendar, complete with everything from feasts to costumes to wine, all in honor of Queen Esther ...

Purim is a Jewish holiday that falls in February or March. While it's known as the holiday when Jewish people dress in costumes, there's more to it than that. Here's a brief lesson on what Purim is ...

In the ancient Achaemenid Empire, Jews faced annihilation. King Ahasuerus’ evil vizier Haman had convinced the king of the rightness of this policy. To thwart the genocide, Mordecai, an influential ...

This past Friday, the Jewish world celebrated the holiday of Purim, which commemorates an astonishing series of events that took place around 450 BCE when the Persian Empire, under the rule of King ...

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