On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room ...

Dehavilland Ford, a Texas pastor, has long felt a kinship with Queen Esther. This fall, just ahead of the presidential election, she helped organize An Esther Call to the Mall, a march in Washington, ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest ...

An exhibit at the Jewish Museum shows how the example of Esther inspired artists, artisans and even royalty in the 17th ...

On 8 March we mark International Women’s Day. It is not well known that there are parts of the Bible from a female ...

While the book is a work of fiction, Sendowski ensures that it remains faithful to the historical and textual integrity of ...

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some ...

Like Queen Esther in the Bible, Priscilla Israel once stood in the epicentre of power, wielding influence that few State ...

JTA – Queen Esther is back in the news – and it’s not good news, and it’s got very little to do with the Jewish holiday of Purim, in whose story she is the starring character. Loved and ...

Esther succeeds in enchanting the king with her extraordinary beauty and charm, and he makes her his queen. The king promotes his loyal subject Haman - whose family is notably anti-Jewish - to the ...

It would seem to be the most improbable of scenarios: A young woman of impeccable Jewish virtue and pedigree is kidnapped, violated, and forced into an oppressive intermarriage with an unsavory ...