An exhibition that is solid gold, Sargent’s scandalous time in Paris and the Morgan Library and Museum’s promised gifts are ...

from Esther’s audience with the king to Mordecai’s recording of Purim’s events. A small wall text quietly notes that two Rembrandt works that directly reference the Book of Esther were ...

named after Esther in the Jewish Torah’s Book of Esther (Megillat Esther). She is the heroine of the Purim story of survival of Jews who lived about 1500 years ago within the expansive Persian ...

The authors of Project 2025 are at it again with Project Esther, a plan that’s supposedly about fighting antisemitism.

Sukkot celebrates the harvest in Israel. It is tradition to take four kinds of vegetation, and wave them together, ...

The Book of Esther ends with the hero and her uncle Mordechai writing letters describing the Purim holiday to far-flung Jewish communities. While much attention is paid to the way the non-Jewish ...

Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jews ... the Israelites from bondage and leading them out of Egypt, in the Book of Esther the name of God never appears. Instead, God works silently behind ...

Our pick of exhibitions includes Rashid Johnson's biggest ever show, Amy Sherald at the Whitney and hypermasculinity in ...