True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

especially the exuberant public reading of the Book of Esther. The biblical text, set in ancient Persia during the reign of Ahasuerus (also known as Xerxes), recounts an attempt to exterminate the ...

Briefly, in the story, which can be found in The Book of Esther, an exalted adviser to King Xerxes of Persia named Haman set an evil plot in motion to have all the Jews in the kingdom murdered. Esther ...

Before risking her life to stand in the courts and make her appeal to King Xerxes, Scripture records that she called for prayer and fasting, saying “if I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16). Because of ...

If you are unfamiliar with the book of Esther from the Old Testament of the Bible, it is easy to summarize. King Xerxes of Persia exiles (almost kills) his current queen, who has spoken out ...

Though unseen and unheard, he orchestrates the details of our lives—even when they are falling apart. One of my earliest memories is of holding my mother’s hand on my first day of school.

kicks off her Queen Esther’s Court series with a rich and resonant retelling of the Purim story. It’s the 12th year of Persian king Xerxes’s rule and 23-year-old Roxannah lives in constant ...