Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. The holiday of Purim has ...

This is because Mordechai and Esther had to write the Megillah under the scrutiny of the antisemitic censures of Persia and Medes – for the Megillat Esther was included in its entirety in the ...

'In Persia, 2,500 years ago, an enemy rose against us to destroy, eliminate, and wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth.' ...

JewishJournal.com will broadcast a Megillah reading LIVE from Chabad’s WILD WILD WESTWOOD PURIM PARTY, February 27 at 8:30 pm. Tune in to this page to hear the story of The Book of Esther.

Costumes and Masks in the Story of Purim Throughout the entire story of the Megillah, we find many costumes and disguises. In fact, it seems that not a single character appears without some form ...