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However, it’s not so simple for Queen Esther. Approaching the king without summons is punishable by death, and after the cautionary tale of Queen Vashti, Esther is more than hesitant to come ...
Queen Vashti is not a “bad girl,” but a feminist icon. Her disobedience was not wrong, but exemplary and brave.
Queen Vashti is not the feminist symbol many want her to be (RNS) — It’s sad to see a carefully preserved Jewish historical tradition sacrificed on the altar of a contemporary ism. "Queen ...
She remembers no one wanting to be Queen Vashti in the Purim plays when she was growing up. “But today, I really try to encourage the girls I’m teaching to embrace her as a hero.
This year, that manual’s most important lessons may come from the contrasting models the female protagonists, Esther and her ...
Queen Vashti chooses to say "No!" to the king's abusive request to parade her beauty in front of drunken and disrespectful guests. Her setting of boundaries and self-worth prompts her banishment ...
The hardly incendiary line “But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment conveyed by the chamberlains” (Megillah 1:12). Indeed, to appropriate a popular bumper sticker, ...
Meet modern-day women named for Vashti, the Purim queen: an Olympian, a singer, children's book authors and the founder of the Colored Girls Museum.
Vashti simply refuses to allow herself to be exploited as the sexual plaything of an abusive drunkard. The queen says “no”, and insists that “no” means “no”.
The Jewish holiday of Purim, like all holidays, has a story, complete with heroes and villains. Purim’s story centers on two women: Queen Vashti and Queen Esther. And in the year of #MeToo, that ...