The Purim story is set in motion by the actions of Esther’s predecessor, Queen Vashti, whose headstrong nature threatens her own freedom. The Megillah opens with a resplendent feast celebrating ...

This Purim, let’s take a moment to appreciate one of the great reputational rehabilitations in my Jewish lifetime: Queen Vashti. We know how the story goes: King Ahashuerus, partying with his ...

The Purim holiday recalls a story of meaningful coincidences and second chances. Queen Vashti chooses to say "No!" to the king's abusive request to parade her beauty in front of drunken and ...

And it entailed the debasement, and eventual dispatching, of his queen, Vashti. And the next action of the foolhardy king was to organize the antithesis of true respect for women: a beauty contest ...

“But Vashti refused, so he sent her away to be executed and held a beauty pageant to find another wife, which is how we got to Queen Esther.” In the story, Esther, whose cousin Mordechai was a ...

Purim’s story centers on two women: Queen Vashti and Queen Esther. And in the year of #MeToo, that means Jews must look more carefully at their Purim storytelling and who they hold up as heroes ...

This year, that manual’s most important lessons may come from the contrasting models the female protagonists, Esther and her ...

who forced Jewish women to work on Shabbat. Vashti wasn’t Jewish, but her departure paved the way for a new queen who was. Queen Esther went on to save the Jews from annihilation, and that’s ...

By the end of the Book of Esther, Queen Esther is a national heroine – and ex-Queen Vashti has been discarded like yesterday’s leftovers. Esther and Vashti live in a man’s world ...

You may recall that King Ahasuerus, who had been sumptuously drinking and feasting with his Shushan subjects for seven days, ordered his chamberlains to “bring Vashti the queen before the king ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, Report this post. When Queen Vashti married King Ahasuerus, she, like all Persian wives, promised to love, honor and obey. Yet, when her ...