The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

In Jewish tradition, no enemy looms larger — or carries more theological weight — than Amalek. Described in the Bible as the ...

Following US strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site, backed by President Donald Trump, Jewish communities across Israel offered special prayers of thanks, calling it a historic turning point and a ...

This record was behind the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Banerjee, his wife and J-PAL cofounder Esther Duflo, and their friend and frequent collaborator, Harvard economist Michael Kremer.

In these turbulent times, when the Middle East is literally on fire with missiles from modern-day Persia and fighter planes ...

The millennia-old community of some 15,000, the Mideast's largest outside Israel, condemns Israel's preemptive strikes on the Islamic regime. Experts say it's not only for show The post Its country at ...

Starring Emily Alyn Lind, Mamie Gummer, Caitlin FitzGerald, Candice King, David Morse, Shubham Maheshwari, Esther McGregor, Joseph Zada and Rahul Kohli, the captivating drama has audiences hooked. We ...

This article was funded by LebTown donors as part of our Civic Impact Reporting Project. Bethel Township Planning Commission members unanimously voted on Tuesday to defer a portion of a required ...

‘Esther and Mordechai Writing the First Purim Letter’ by Aert de Gelder, c. 1685 (credit: WIKIPEDIA) And it is in Iran that, according to some, a similar turnabout has taken place.

Dame Esther, a staunch supporter of Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, has been a prominent voice in the conversation on assisted dying. Dame Esther Rantzen has been an ...

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape from destruction recorded in the Book of Esther. Haman, an early Hitler in ...