If music be the food of love, play on” is one of many quotable lines in William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” on stage at ...

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

KU Chabad, in partnership with Chabad YoungKC, a project of Chabad on the Plaza, hosted a “Mega Purim Party” for young Jewish professionals in Kansas City. The event brought together young Jews from ...

For many, Passover planning begins the day they sift through bags of Purim goodies. Then faced with the inevitable panic, ...

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

Today, besides Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ayatollah Khamenei, we are hated by U.N. officials and innumerable college faculty, students, commentators, journalists, and government officials around the world.

Wherever we travel, wherever we find ourselves in this vast world, all we have to do is pay attention, look around, maybe put ...

The folk singer Tom Lehrer penned a famous ditty in which he alluded to spending Jewish holidays in places where the name of ...

Survey of 78,000 people in 36 countries on ‘religious switching’ in the world also shows that 20% of the US Muslim population ...

Atyrau, a majority-Muslim Kazakh city in a Central Asian desert known for its history of Cossack rebellions, doesn’t sound ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...