The most well-known Jewish holiday is probably either Passover or Hanukkah. Passover is prescribed in the Bible, while ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a broadly popular symbol of courage and resistance.

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 ...

Esther used her relationship with the king to reverse Haman's scheme, allowing Jews to kill their enemies. Queen Esther then notified Mordecai about Haman's plan, which made things right. In addition ...

Haman’s pride and preening were his undoing ... and drive them toward collective renewal and growth. From Queen Esther to the power ballads of the 80s, one truth rings clear: the journey ...

On this sacred holiday, we commemorate the harrowing tale of Haman’s genocidal plot to eradicate the Jewish people, a scheme thwarted by the courage and unshakable emunah (faith) of Esther and ...

Jewish lives are saved, and Mordecai takes over Haman's place as the king's second-in-command. In the Book of Esther, a drunk King Ahasuerus has his wife, Queen Vashti, killed for disobeying him ...

The holiday honors Queen Esther’s bravery in saving the Jewish people from Haman, a Persian official who wanted to destroy them, as told in the biblical Book of Esther. Queen Esther and her ...

While other maidens vied for the chance to be queen ... into the picture only after Haman was hanged. Mordechai recorded the story, but it is one that highlights Esther's leadership and heroics.