Which brings me to Queen Esther, who as a strong, assertive Persian Jewish woman, certainly broke some barriers. The story of Purim takes place in Shushan, an ancient city in Iran. Like so many ...

Queen Esther, the story’s heroine ... But it is this mode of infinite power that saved the Persian Jews. One reading of soft power might see it as manipulative and surreptitious, but in the ...

to the biblical Esther who became queen of Persia and rescued her people from a murderous plot to annihilate them. With ...

Well, not totally surprised. Esther’s story has been used as a symbol for centuries, as authors Elizabeth Dias and Ruth ...

Haman plotted to kill every Jew in Persia, drawing lots (purim) to determine the day of their execution. Unbeknownst to either the King or Haman, Ahasuerus’s new Queen Esther was a Jew and ...

while the Jews are exiled in ancient Persia. The king, who is angry at his wife, picks Esther as his new queen. But she does not reveal she is Jewish. When the king issues an edict to kill all the ...