NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced ...

The 41st Annual JCC Jewish Book Festival: John Irving When: Feb. 21 at 7:30 Where: Norman & Annette Rothstein Theatre, Jewish ...

Dehavilland Ford, a Texas pastor, has long felt a kinship with Queen Esther. This fall, just ahead of the presidential election, she helped organize An Esther Call to the Mall, a march in Washington, ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim, starting Saturday evening, centers on the biblical Book of Esther. Set during the ancient Persian Empire, the story recounts how King Ahasuerus marries the beautiful ...

Jan Lievens, "The Feast of Esther" (c. 1625), oil on canvas (image courtesy North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh / Bridgeman Images) The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibition, The Book of Esther in the ...

On April 5, Esther Weiss, who first moved to Santa Monica in 1944, passed away peacefully of natural causes surrounded by her family. She was 97. The mother of my good friend, Phyllis Weiss, Esther ...

NEW YORK – In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced Feb. 6 that ...