In advance of the Storyhouse event in Dublin, Ed Guiney tells Esther McCarthy about eight great feats of screenwriting ...

With awards season over and Serious Roles for Serious Actors in the rearview mirror for a bit, Hollywood is getting down and dirty (and bloody) this April with the big business of action flicks. And ...

Sierra and James Clark spent the last seven years toiling away in a 400-square-foot SoMa loft to produce Brucato Amaro, a liqueur that has captured the attention of San Francisco’s top restaurants and ...

Now, fast forward to October 6, 2023, when Israelis were living peacefully, happily providing Gazans with an income by ...

There has long been interest in illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, as documented in the beautiful 1969 book Hebrew Illuminated ...

I attended the reading of the Book of Esther in the Zion community in Jerusalem, a community whose values are my values: ...

In the Scroll of Esther, revenge is a powerful theme, but just as clearly one that leads to confusion and tragedy.

Esther and Mordechai writing the second letter ... there is a comment that addresses the specific issue of revenge. In his book Tiferet Shlomo, Rabbi Dov Zvi HaCohen makes a distinction between ...

Books were a beacon of hope for me. I had those little books that just encouraged me that my story could be bigger than what ...

The development of "Dayenu," that Haggadah ditty that recaps the many miracles the Israelites experienced throughout the Book ...