Esther | Israel news feed

Tradition says Mordechai wrote the Book of Esther, but surely he wouldn't have gotten the timing of his own expulsion a century wrong?

  When Chief Rabbi of Iran Rabbi Yehuda Gerami arrived Thursday, as he does every year on the Fast of Esther and Purim, to pray at the tomb of Mordechai and Esther in Hamedan, he discovered that the Palestinian flag had been raised there. In recent months, because of the war in Gaza, the holiest […]