Esther

Over the past week, Israel has been criticized for being insufficiently supportive of democratic change in Egypt. While Prime Minister Binyamin…

Eric Byres was shocked. Sitting in his office in Vancouver, Canada a few weeks ago, he began sifting through some of the requests submitted via the…

The results are in: Some 60% of Jpost.com readers voted for the Stuxnet worm as the biggest Middle East story of 2010. In second place, the US…

Reports surfaced last week that Stuxnet, the virus mysteriously implanted in the computers running Iran’s nuclear sites, is still wreaking havoc,…

A study by the Tzomet Institute titled "Forbidden sexual relations for the sake of national security" released this week rules that female Mossad…

The multitude of carnivals and celebrations that make up Purim are now behind us. In the traditional phrase, we “increased our joy.” What other…

On Monday, at precisely 12 noon, the streets of Holon will burst into life as the city hosts the largest Purim festivities in the country, the Ad…

Nuts, seeds and legumes are customary elements on the Purim menu to honor Queen Esther, who was said to have followed a vegetarian diet in the King’s…

When my sisters and I were young, chubby and growing up in a Jewish suburb of New York City in the mid-20th century, before play dates and Play-Doh,…

Injuries to children playing with illegal explosives and flammable costumes accidentally set on fire are 3.5 times more common before and during the…

Learning Hebrew Online - Purimby Shira Choen-Regev  The HebrewOnline TeamShalom friends,The holiday ofPurim commemorates the salvation of the Jewish…

The brief contents of the e-mail were as follows (identifying details have been removed. Nothing has been altered): “This woman applied to … for…

A classic Yiddish joke tells of a Frenchman, an Englishman and a Jew who were asked to write essays on the elephant. The Englishman focused on…

A classic Yiddish joke tells of a Frenchman, an Englishman and a Jew who were asked to write essays on the elephant. The Englishman focused on…

Late, but welcomeSir, - A positive step toward Israel was long in coming, but what a pleasant surprise that The Netherlands has finally taken it! In…

One of the high points of the Book of Esther, that Jews around the world read in synagogues this week, comes when Mordechai tells the heroine that…

As Jews around the world are celebrating Purim, one Egyptian cleric has used the holiday to launch an attack against Starbucks, claiming that the…

As Jews around the world celebrated Purim, an Egyptian cleric called for a boycott against Starbucks throughout the Arab world, claiming that the…

A few months ago, the normally hostile Iranian regime took the rather unusual step of adding a Jewish holy site to its National Heritage List. On…

'What's in a name?" asked Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet, "that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."Well, old Will may not…