If you were to visit a home in Amsterdam in the 17th Century, you might find, in the kitchen, the library, or even inside the fireplace, a scene of the biblical Queen Esther approaching her ...

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

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 ...

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Her kind of courage and hidden soft power is pivotal in today’s world, writes the founder of a movement toward embodying the Jewish experience and feminine spirituality. NEW YORK (JTA) – To be ...

JTA – Queen Esther is back in the news – and it’s not good news, and it’s got very little to do with the Jewish holiday of Purim, in whose story she is the starring character. Loved and ...

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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 ...

It would seem to be the most improbable of scenarios: A young woman of impeccable Jewish virtue and pedigree is kidnapped, violated, and forced into an oppressive intermarriage with an unsavory ...

Esther John was born Qamar Zia, on 14th October 1929, one of seven children. As a child she attended a government school and, after the age of seventeen, a Christian school. There she was profoundly ...

Ahasuerus (Xerxes I), King of the Persians, whose empire now extends from India to Egypt after the defeat of the Babylonians, is holding a celebratory banquet for his people in the citadel of Susa ...

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