A woman who rarely receives praise, though her disobedience was for an understandable reason and ultimately provided the ...

Though Esther had no desire to become queen, she was forced to enter a beauty contest the king held in order to find a new wife. Esther followed her uncle’s directive — she entered the pageant ...

At the event, the ancient Jewish queen’s story was recast ... In the years since Ford’s epiphany, Esther’s reach has extended beyond the Jewish world to become a model of courage, divine ...

A quiet Jewish girl becomes a power-wielding queen ... she isn’t the only powerful woman in the Purim tale. Queen Esther, the story’s heroine, wields a form of power that is often hard ...

She decides to become a powerful advocate for her people ... and drive them toward collective renewal and growth. From Queen Esther to the power ballads of the 80s, one truth rings clear: the ...

As the story progresses, we see her move from pawn to player, from compliant teenager to queen and action hero. In the end, in Jewish history and teaching, Esther/Hadassah becomes a terrific ...

Esther, according to the biblical story, is a young Jewish woman who becomes the queen of Persia, risks her life and saves her people, popular even as a Purim costume. Both of us have worn her ...

The Bible’s Queen Esther was one of the defining Dutch divas of the 17th century and muse to some of Amsterdam’s greatest painters — among them Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. “The Book of Esther in ...

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some artists today. By Deborah Solomon As far as biblical heroines go ...