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The Forward on MSNWhy Queen Esther was the star in the age of Rembrandt’s AmsterdamRembrandt’s Esther portrait, given its own wallspace, stares straight at the viewer, her mouth in a slight smile, hand to her ...
Eventually, Esther bravely revealed her status as a Jewish person to convince the king to stop his antisemitic advisor, Haman, from annihilating the Jewish people of Persia. Due to Esther's ...
Esther is the only Jew in the right position to reveal to the king that the people Haman seeks to exterminate—an act for which the king had already given permission—were her own. The book of ...
Mordechai and Esther are the antithesis of Haman, the atheist materialist who turns himself into god. Mordechai and Esther are believers who put the nation’s good in the center of existence ...
At its heart is a gripping narrative featuring Queen Esther, a young Jewish woman who bravely risked her life to save her people from genocide. The villain of the story is Haman, a powerful ...
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RNS on MSNFor Jews, the age-old threat of Purim is not even the pastAs recounted in the Bible’s Book of Esther, a member of the Persian king’s court, Haman, sought to wipe out the kingdom’s ...
However, this exposes Zionism itself as white supremacy and a modern embodiment of anti-Semitic ideology, much like Haman in the myth of Queen Esther, actively targeting Jewish organisations such ...
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The Times of Israel on MSNMordechai could have bowed to Haman with impunityNearly every character in the book is a caricature, from the bumbling King Achashverosh, to the wicked Haman; from the wise ...
Do you struggle with forgiving someone who has hurt you deeply? Maybe you can’t stop thinking about it. Do you wish for their ...
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