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 ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther ... changed when Haman, the king’s adviser, conceived a plot to eradicate the Jews of Persia. Esther was stirred to ...

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