By Tamar Rotem, Haaretz Correspondent : Queen Vashti - from disobedient wife to religious feminist role model
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Vashti was considered an evil woman because tradition holds that she treated her girl servants cruelly. She forced them to work without clothes, and she didn`t mind going naked to the feast. Many disobedient and strong Jewish women are consedered the greatest in our history, i.e. Hanna and Judith. Each of them disobeyed kings.