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 ...

Andreas Adriano profiles MIT’s J-PAL, where Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are reinventing development economics Some seemingly great development ideas don’t work out as expected. One that famously ...

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

Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster explains the biblical significance behind the name of Israel's military ...

The millennia-old community of some 15,000, the Mideast's largest outside Israel, condemns Israel's preemptive strikes on the ...

Commit to holding onto this unity. Commit to staying civilized and connected even when you disagree politically, religiously, ...

On the 23rd day of the Hebrew month of Sivan, Queen Esther is said to have allowed the Jews of Persia to fight back against ...

For those who know the Purim story in the Book of Esther, the kind of miracles and wonders we are seeing will be familiar. In ...

The world is in the middle of a series of significant celestial events that could portend a message about Israel.

Purim is a festive holiday, also without a work restriction, near the end of winter. It commemorates the narrow Jewish escape ...

Today, readers of the Bible are reading their newspapers and seeing history repeat itself. Centuries after Haman’s genocidal ...