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St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A depiction of Queen Esther. Photo: Wikimedia Commons  

Understanding and appreciating the amazing story of Queen Esther

By Sidnie White Crawford and Updated by Joshua Aaron AlfaroPublished February 24, 2023

In the biblical book named after her, Esther is a young Jewish woman living in the Persian diaspora who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction when the court official Haman persuades the...

New York Post article about Ezrat Nashim from March 14, 1972. Courtesy of Leora Fishman.

“All of us had unbelievable chutzpah.” The true story of the women who helped change Conservative Judaism

Published April 4, 2022

Fifty years ago, a group of young Jewish women piled into two cars and drove to upstate New York to crash the annual meeting of the all-male Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement. They called themselves Ezrat Nashim and they had a set of demands...

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