When Esther finds out about Haman’s plot against the Jews, we are told by the writer of the Megillah that the queen was deeply disturbed. In their conversations, Mordechai entreats her to act ...

Despite Esther ... called Haman, has convinced the king to authorize the murder of all the Jews in the kingdom. Mordecai cries out loudly and bitterly, then sends word to his ward, now queen ...

We have just passed the Jewish holiday of Purim, a time to commemorate the story of Queen Esther, who saved the Jewish people ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

Jan Lievens’s “the Feast of Esther” takes as its subject the high-stakes dinner where the queen confronts Haman over his plan to annihilate a people he calls “scattered abroad and dispersed among the ...