VIDEO: Hasidic Jew’s trip to Iran to find Queen Esther’s tomb
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Queen Esther
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Opinion How to navigate the Court of Trump? Esther’s pragmatism vs. Vashti’s principles
What the holiday tale of palace intrigue has to teach us about this fraught political moment
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Art Why Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s Amsterdam
The figure from the Hebrew Bible was adopted as a figure of national self-determination in the Netherlands
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Opinion Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza demands a new reading of the Purim story’s final chapter
We can no longer see the Jews’ vengeful murder of 75,800 Persians as fantasy or farce
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News Why are Christians obsessed with Queen Esther?
From the Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project Esther’ to Texas' Bible-based school curriculum, Queen Esther has become a Christian touchpoint
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
The Texas Board of Education plans to vote on Bluebonnet Learning this week
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Culture A beautiful, Black, Queen Esther with braids — and readers are liking what they see
Whether intentionally or not, a newspaper geared toward an Orthodox audience makes a diversity statement
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Culture Is Kate Middleton’s disappearance a modern-day Purim story?
The Princess of Wales, like Esther of old, has been hidden away
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