The Jewish holiday of Purim, starting Saturday evening, centers on the biblical Book of Esther. Set during the ancient Persian Empire, the story recounts how King Ahasuerus marries the beautiful ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced ...

Esther was from Persia. She was a beautiful Jewish woman who became a heroine for saving the Jews from extinction — the reason why Purim is celebrated each year. Movies that have portrayed the story ...

Sight & Sound Theatres will be premiering the original stage production, “Queen Esther” on March 14. The Old Testament story is set in the opulent world of Persia and like most Sight & Sound ...

Novelist John Irving says he knew he was on track when he figured out how “Queen Esther” would end. Now he faced a new challenge: How the story began. “Like all my novels, that’s the thing I see most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Esther denouncing Haman, who, according to the Purim story, attempted to have all Jews within the Persian Empire massacred.

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I remember when I first realized I didn’t understand Esther — possibly, didn’t even like her. It was Shabbat afternoon and a group of us were reading over the text of the megillah with a woman from my ...

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In all of history, how many people can say, “I saved the Jewish people from destruction?” Queen Esther can, though it’s unlikely she would. She might say, “I was the vehicle through which G-d saved ...

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