When Mordechai famously informed Esther that if she did not save her people, salvation would arrive nevertheless, and that perhaps she had been born to lead at such a moment, he must have seen ...

Esther pleads with her husband – in vain – that ... It is at this point that Mordechai – who the Talmud says was a member of the Sanhedrin and was certainly an expert in Halacha – delivers ...

Both Mordechai and Esther play leadership roles in Megillat Esther. Their respective roles and the relationship between them are central to the megillah and even account for its very name.

Footage has emerged of Iran’s Chief Rabbi Yehuda Gerami reading from the Book of Esther and dancing with students at the Tomb of Mordechai and Esther in the city of Hamadan for the holiday of Purim.

She is described as attractive: “Beautiful in form and good to look at” (Esther 2:7). Because she does precisely as her guardian, Mordecai, and then as others direct, we infer that she’s ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

One of the few paintings of Esther with Mordecai, by Aert de Geulder ... At the feast, Haman cowers or pleads as the turbaned King Ahasuerus rises in anger, in one image sending a meal of peacock ...