In galleries, you could see the queen, who Jews commemorate ... an 80 year war for independence from Spain, Esther was a star ...

In ancient Persia, Queen Esther, a Jewish woman, risked her life to expose King Ahasuerus’s advisor Haman’s wicked plot to annihilate the Jewish people. Centuries later, in the Netherlands ...

The story can be read as proto-feminist, with Esther saving her people from within Persia’s patriarchy ... Esther and her predecessor, Queen Vashti, represent when it comes to negotiating ...