Esther was about to choose to transition to adulthood and hear the call to find meaning in her life. She starts as this quiet, passive queen ... Then there’s Haman, the bad guy with a massive ...

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Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

On this sacred holiday, we commemorate the harrowing tale of Haman’s genocidal plot to eradicate the Jewish people, a scheme thwarted by the courage and unshakable emunah (faith) of Esther and ...

Jan Lievens’s “the Feast of Esther” takes as its subject the high-stakes dinner where the queen confronts Haman over his plan to annihilate a people he calls “scattered abroad and dispersed among the ...