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How Queen Esther Became an American Hero - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

How Queen Esther Became an American Hero
Left: Queen Esther in America. Right: The author, Rabbi Stu Halpern
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Ivanka Trump and Monica Lewinsky were both compared to Queen Esther. Hillary Clinton called the star of the Purim story her favorite biblical heroine. In 1862, an abolitionist minister quoted the Book of Esther in calling on President Lincoln to free the slaves.
Those are just a few of the ways the Book of Esther has been deployed in American political and cultural life. Ministers, rabbis, politicians, activists, feminists, anti-feminists and more have drawn on the story of the Jewish queen in the court of the Persian King Ahasuerus, finding lessons in how she intervenes to prevent the king’s evil minister Haman from killing the kingdom’s Jews. ....

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How Queen Esther Became an American Hero

Andrew Silow-Carroll is Editor in Chief of The NY Jewish Week.
The cast of a Purim play staged by the Sephardic Jewish Community in New York in 1936. (Center for Jewish History via Wikimedia Commons)
Ivanka Trump and Monica Lewinsky were both compared to Queen Esther. Hillary Clinton called the star of the Purim story her favorite biblical heroine. In 1862, an abolitionist minister quoted the Book of Esther in calling on President Lincoln to free the slaves.
Those are just a few of the ways the Book of Esther has been deployed in American political and cultural life. Ministers, rabbis, politicians, activists, feminists, anti-feminists and more have drawn on the story of the Jewish queen in the court of the Persian King Ahasuerus, finding lessons in how she intervenes to prevent the king’s evil minister Haman from killing the kingdom’s Jews. ....

New York , United States , Grand Island , Promised Land , New Jersey , Yeshiva University , Kohen Gadol , Sojourner Truth , Orit Avinery , Dara Horn , Hester Prynne , Elliott Horowitz , Cotton Mather , Mordecai Emanual Noah , Stuart Halpern , Queen Esther , Winona Ryder , Erica Brown , Thomas Jefferson , Zev Eleff , Monica Lewinsky , Megillat Esther , States Koren , Noah Ark , Ivanka Trump , Emily Colbert Cairns ,