The name “Purim” means “lots” in ancient Persian, referring to the lots Haman cast to select the date of his proposed genocide. When Haman decided to massacre the Jewish people of Persia ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a broadly popular symbol of courage and resistance.

The Talmud in Tractate Gittin 57B teaches that the direct descendants of Haman the Amalekite (who lived in ancient Persia about 2,500 years ago) eventually became students of Torah in Bnei Brak in ...

The story takes place in ancient Persia, where a Jewish woman named Esther becomes queen, but hides her Jewish identity. The villain of the story, Haman, a high-ranking official in King Ahasuerus ...

Adolph Hitler was compared today With Haman, the Persian minister of ancient times who plotted to massacre the Jews, in an article appearing in the Nazi paper Judenkenner. “Both Hitler and Haman ...

Mordecai's refusal to sacrifice him infuriated Haman, who calculated his plan so that he could kill every Jewish exile living in the Persian empire, and obtained the king's approval. The value of ...

Staring from the gallows at the jeering Persian crowd, did Haman ask himself: “Why I did pick this fight? Why did I wage war on the Jews?” The Bible doesn’t say. It does, however ...

This month the Jewish community celebrated the festival of Purim, which commemorates the survival of the Jews in ancient Persia who were under threat of extermination from the genocidal intentions of ...