Her uncle, Mordechai ... was it about the Book of Esther that not only made the rabbis include it but mandated its public reading every year both on the night of Purim and the next morning?

"I would omit Purim," he answered without hesitation ... everyone in the city of Shushan is confused and frightened. But Mordechai and Esther come along and pull off a brilliant maneuver, saving ...

Purim falls on Monday 9 March in 2020 ... Unaware that she is Jewish, Ahasuerus marries Esther. Offended by Mordecai’s refusal to bow before him, the king’s vizier, Haman, then discovers ...

“Go, assemble all the Jews who live in Shushan, and fast on my behalf,” Esther says to her uncle Mordechai. I never liked the holiday of Purim. It celebrates a violent deliverance from an ...

Purim is a Jewish festival that usually happens in February or March each year. It celebrates a story from the Jewish Bible. In the story, Queen Esther helped to save the Jewish people from an ...