It tells the story of a Jewish girl named Esther who became queen of Persia and thwarted a plan to commit genocide against her people.

It tells the story of Brian Cohen ( played by Graham Chapman ), a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.

22b, 23a, 49b ), the book of Jewish mysticism and collection of writings on the Torah written by first century tannaic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai ( Rashbi ), tells of a celestial manifestation, which causes the crowing of the roosters ; known also in the Talmud, is " blessed be He who has given the cock intelligence ,"( Ber.

William Dalrymple reviewing the literature in 1999 tells us that J. E. Hanauer in his 1907 book Folklore of the Holy Land: Muslim, Christian and Jewish " mentioned a shrine in the village of Beit Jala, beside Bethlehem, which at the time was frequented by all three of Palestine's religious communities.

Oskar Berger, a Jewish eyewitness, tells of the camp's state in August 1942:

The town of Ferrara was also the setting of the famous film The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Vittorio De Sica in ( 1970 ), that tells the vicissitudes of a rich Jewish family during the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini and World War II.

There are also myths about the Asturian monarchy that are rooted in Jewish and Christian traditions rather than pagan ones: the Chronica ad Sebastianum tells of an extraordinary event that happened when king Alfonso I died.

The Letter on the Conversion of the Jews by a 5th century bishop named Severus tells of the conversion of the island's Jewish community in AD 418.

* The Remnant-Jewish Resistance in WWII by Othniel J. Seiden ( c 2010, ISBN 0-9801941-4-8 ; Books to Believe In ) also tells of the horrors of Babi Yar, along with the stories of the Forest People of the Ukraine, who made up much of the Jewish Resistance to the Nazis.

Another Jewish tradition tells that when Jacob was brought to be buried in the cave, Esau prevented the burial claiming he has the right to be buried in the cave, after some negotiation Naphtali was sent to Egypt to retrieve the document stating Esau sold his part in the cave to Jacob.

See also Acts 2: 10 where Jews from Cyrene heard the disciples speaking in their own language in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost ; 6: 9 where some Cyrenian Jews disputed with a disciple named Stephen ; 11: 20 tells of Jewish Christians originally from Cyrene who ( along with believers from Cyprus ) first preached the Gospel to non-Jews ; 13: 1 names Lucius of Cyrene as one of several to whom the Holy Spirit spoke, instructing them to appoint Barnabas and Saul ( later Paul ) for missionary service.

Life Is Beautiful () is a 1997 Italian film which tells the tragic-comic story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice ( played by Roberto Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the film ), who courts and marries a woman and later must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

The novel tells the story of Sophie ( a Polish Roman Catholic who survived Auschwitz ), Nathan ( her brilliant, mercurial, and menacing Jewish lover ), and Stingo ( a Southern transplant in post World War II-Brooklyn who was in love with Sophie ).

Balak is also the name of the weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading that tells the story of Balak in the Book of Numbers.

The Jewish Museum tells the interesting story of Brest Jewry.

A priest tells the gathered soldiers that each religion has endorsed the war by way of allowing soldiers to eat pork if Jewish, meat on Fridays if Catholic, and work through the sabbath if in service of the war for all religions.

Clamence tells us that he lives only a short distance from Mexico City, in what was — formerly — the Jewish Quarter, " until our Hitlerian brethren spaced it out a bit.

Russell's third novel, A Thread of Grace, tells a fictional story within the fact-based setting of the Resistance in Italy during World War II and the plight of Jewish refugees in Northern Italy escaping from Nazi persecution throughout Europe.

Consisting of a long corridor connected to 10 exhibition halls, each dedicated to a different chapter of the Holocaust, the museum tells the story of the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective.

Based on a play by Samson Raphaelson, the story tells of Jakie Rabinowitz ( Al Jolson ), the son of a devout Jewish family, who runs away from home to become a jazz singer.

George tells her she has shiksa-appeal, the attraction Gentile women have over Jewish men (" Jewish men love the idea of meeting a woman that's not like their mother ").

In Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus tells of Philo's selection by the Alexandrian Jewish community as their principal representative before the Roman emperor Gaius Caligula.

It tells the story of Azriel, the only surviving Jewish member of the small Hungarian town of Kolvillag after a pogrom perpetrated by neighboring Christians.

It was written, he tells us, in bitter anguish, " out of much affliction and pressure of heart ... and with streaming eyes " ( 2 Cor 2: 4 ); yet he restrained the expression of his feelings, and wrote with a dignity and holy calm which he thought most calculated to win back his erring children.

After returning to London, Dorian tells Lord Henry that he will be good from now on, and has started by not breaking the heart of his latest innocent conquest named Hetty Merton.

In stanzas 54 and 55 of the poem Völuspá, a völva tells Odin that his son Víðarr will avenge Odin's death at Ragnarök by stabbing Fenrir in the heart.

Between 2006 and 2007, he replaced Jared Leto in Awake, with Jessica Alba, which tells the story of a man who remains awake but paralyzed during heart surgery, and in Factory Girl, opposite Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce.

And the film tells the story of an old man who dies from a heart attack, which is the same thing that happened!

As Hades tells it, Megara sells her soul for her lover, who does not honor the sacrifice and very soon gives his heart to some other girl.

Leslie at first agrees and tells him she loves him, but she then breaks down and confesses, " With all my heart, I still love the man I killed!

Seeing how distraught Jane is, having lost both her father and her lover, Susie makes the decision to bail Amory out anyway and tells Jane to follow her heart and go after Ned.

Yvaine no longer fears her and tells her the good news that she has given her heart to Tristran.

Shocked by the constant beating of the heart and a feeling that not only are the officers aware of the sound, but that they also suspect him, the narrator confesses to killing the old man and tells them to tear up the floorboards to reveal the body.

A heartbroken McGinty tells Falco that he has been cut in favor of Martel, but Falco accepts the news, saying that it's best for the team since Martel is better than him, to which McGinty says that Falco has heart and Martel doesn't.

Sybil, who has become Carrington's confidante, writes him a letter in which she tells him he should try again to win her sister's heart once they have returned from their tour.

When the mob of reporters asks Anatoly why he is deserting his country, he tells them that his land's only borders lie around his heart (" Anthem ").

Nickie, a fellow dancer, tells Charity that her problem is " you run your heart like a hotel — you've always got people checking in and checking out ".

The nightingale visits all the rose-trees in the garden, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life.

The song tells the tale of the lamenting heart of a woman waiting for her peddler husband ’ s return.

When Tommy is sent to retrieve the Zeo Crystal, which is hidden under Rita and Zedd's Palace, Zordon tells him that only a being who was pure of heart can enter the force field around the crystal and survive.

When Tenma apologizes to Director Heinemann at a hospital banquet for what happened to Mayor Roedecker, Director Heinemann tells him not to worry about it and that he just followed his heart.

In one letter from August 1929 she tells Stone she is recovering from a heart attack.

Karen, remembering John's last words, tells Mike to shoot Chucky in the heart.

Anna unwisely loses her temper and tells the king he has no heart and that he's a barbarian.

The Storyteller tells his dog that when Prince Leo became king, he retold the story where he states that he gave the heart back to the giant and that the giant never bothered the kingdom again.

After eliminating them all, the priest leading the eulogy tells Tommy he has committed a grave sin and fears his soul is at risk, which Tommy rationalizes at first that he killed all bad men, but seriously takes the priest's warning to heart.