Want to be Alone With a Rembrandt and a Queen? Here’s Your Chance.
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some ...
A holiday for believers and skeptics
The Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated March 13-14, is considered holier than Yom Kippur, yet it’s a story of survival where ...
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The Miracle of Purim: Human Heroes and Hybrid Identities
According to the Sages, it was Esther who asked the Jewish community to write the Megillah, so that they would remember her: ...
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Christian conservatives have appropriated Queen Esther as a symbol. Let’s take her back.
American Jews should stand up against a movement that coopts Queen Esther, a Jewish heroine, to attack free speech and queer ...
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Want to be Alone With a Rembrandt and a Queen? Here’s Your Chance.
An orphan, she was raised by her older cousin Mordecai, who coached her to conceal her faith in an age of religious persecution. Esther, the story goes, was such a looker she wound up marrying ...
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A holiday for believers and skeptics
Esther, a Jewish orphan, conceals her identity and becomes queen (Esther 2:10, 2:17). Haman, the king’s advisor, plots to annihilate the Jewish people (Esther 3:5-6). Mordecai, Esther’s cousin ...
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Christian conservatives have coopted Queen Esther as a symbol
American Jews must stand up against a movement that appropriates a Jewish heroine to attack free speech and queer people ...
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Why are Christians obsessed with Queen Esther?
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 ...