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1. www.chabad.org › library › article_cdo15 Queen Esther Facts - Chabad.org

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   Esther was a Jewish woman who lived in Persia during the period following the destruction of the First Holy Temple, when many Jews had been taken as slaves to Babylonia, which was subsequently overtaken by Persia.

2. jewishjournal.com › commentary › columnistIn Honor of Purim, Meet Four Extraordinary Persian Jewish Women

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   • Iran
   • Mohtaram
   • Flora
   • Parastoo

   A woman named Iran was born in 1918. At least, we think she was born in 1918. And yes, her name was Iran, though she was born in the country that, at the time, was still called Persia. Her parents, including her mother, Leah, were finally allowed to leave the confines of Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, making Iran and her siblings among the first in their ...

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   The Iranian Jewish family of Mohtaram (meaning respectable) hailed from a picturesque town called Golpayegan, in the province of Isfahan. Whereas Iran (mentioned above) always smelled like raw onion and turmeric, Mohtaram always smelled like fried onion and cumin. And unlike Iran, she was, let’s say, lovably corpulent. In fact, to have been wrapped...

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   Felor (Flora) is a self-identifying elitist from Tehran. Never ask whether she, or even her mother, Iran (mentioned above), grew up in Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, unless you’d like to lose an eye. “Me? In the Jewish ghetto? My mother didn’t even set foot there!” she insists. Flora hails from a pious, middle-class Jewish family and her father, Aziz, and...

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   During the Iran-Iraq War, Parastoo couldn’t help but feel so scared of near-daily missile raids that she would inevitably vomit on several expensive Persian rugs at home. Between begging her to vomit somewhere else and hugging her for comfort, Parastoo’s mother, Flora, was often found with a mop in one hand and a siddur(Jewish prayer book) in anoth...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › EstherEsther - Wikipedia

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   Esther, [a] originally Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. According to the biblical narrative, which is set in the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus falls in love with Esther and marries her. [1] .

4. www.kveller.com › queen-esther-is-a-role-model-forQueen Esther Is a Role Model for Persian Jewish ... - Kveller

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   Feb 23, 2021 · Queen Esther Is a Role Model for Persian Jewish Women Like Me. By Aylin Sedighi-Gabbaizadeh Feb 23, 2021. Growing up in Iran as a Persian Jew, there were a lot of ways that one was expected to behave and act. This was especially true for girls and women.

5. jwa.org › encyclopedia › articleEsther: Bible | Jewish Women's Archive

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   Jun 23, 2021 · Esther, the main character in the book named after her, is a young Jewish woman who becomes queen of the Persian empire and risks her life by interceding for the Jewish people to save them from a pogrom.

6. www.myjewishlearning.com › article › sephardi-andThe History of Sephardi and Mizrahi ... - My Jewish Learning

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   “Mizrahi,” literally meaning east or “Oriental” in Hebrew, is a recent term that emerged in early twentieth-century Zionist rhetoric to refer to Jews from Muslim-majority societies in North Africa, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, and Syria.

7. time.com › 4269357Story of Purim and Vashti's History as a Feminist Symbol | TIME

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   Mar 23, 2016 · In the story, Esther, whose cousin Mordechai was a leader in their Jewish community, kept her religion to herself until Haman, one of the king’s advisers, hatched a plan to exterminate the Jews.