The weekly Torah portion ‘Beshalach’ concludes with the first battle the Jewish people faced after leaving Egypt – the war ...

The text describes how during the fifth century B.C., Haman, the evil vizier and adviser to the king of Persia, spurred a decree “to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews ...

In the Purim story, the king’s adviser Haman was plotting to kill the Jews of Persia and was ultimately hanged. “Today we celebrate the holiday of Purim,” the prime minister says after a ...

That designation went to Queen Esther, the heroine who foils the planned murder of Persia’s Jews by Haman, an official who ends up getting executed by hanging by his master King Ahasuerus.

Queen Esther helped to save the Jewish people from an evil man called Haman. Haman was the King’s helper. To celebrate Purim, people eat special triangle biscuits called hamantaschen.