By Tamar Rotem, Haaretz Correspondent : Queen Vashti - from disobedient wife to religious feminist role model
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Title: Marduk and Ishtar=Mordechai and Esther Name: Big Sooz City: Tel Aviv State:
http://www.shj.org/purim.htm The Vashti element was introduced by men (rabbis) as yet another way of suppressing women in Judaism. Not that this should stop us all from having a good time at Purim. Happy chag-based-on-a-Babylonian-story-stolen-by-the-Jews!