"We will continue to show the world that all animals deserve to be loved just like she was," co-parents Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter wrote of Esther on Instagram Sabrina Weiss is the Editorial ...

Queen Esther' is a literary riffing on a biblical story. It also might be the most sympathetic treatment of Jewish themes by a non-Jewish novelist in decades.

Jan Lievens, "The Feast of Esther" (c. 1625), oil on canvas (image courtesy North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh / Bridgeman Images) The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibition, The Book of Esther in the ...

The Book of Esther tells the remarkable story of a Jewish orphan who became Queen of Persia and saved her people from genocide through courage and divine providence. Esther’s bravery in approaching ...

Vintage colour lithograph from 1882 of Esther standing in the Inner Court of the King’s House duncan1890/Getty Images It didn’t happen all at once. It took work to shed the names, accents and customs ...

ESTHER is described as a dance musical or a movement opera; it sets off to tell the tale of the Biblical heroine through the motion of one performer while another sings the part. This works well ...

Jewish persecution and Jewish self-protection, not to mention Jewish paranoia, the relations of Jews and Persians, the morality of Jewish reprisals for Jewish persecution, even the impulsive acts of a ...

Esther Farnsworth of Montpelier, Vt., died peacefully on August 1, 2025, at the Hummingbird Center in Berlin, Vt. Esther was born in Springfield, Mass., on December 8, 1928, one of four children born ...