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Purim Heroines
Mar 18, 2016 By Stefanie B. Siegmund | Commentary | Purim
I did not wear the crown and satiny dress, or stand in line for the beauty pageant. Queen Esther was not a role model I—or many other children—could choose. Later, in the academy, I understood that Esther’s subterfuge and seduction were the strategies of the weak, the politics of the minority.
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