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The secretly-Jewish Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai foil Haman's plan when Esther reveals her Jewishness to her husband and convinces the king to spare her people from genocide.

To fight for the rights of protesters like Mahmoud Khalil is to step into our Jewishness like Esther on Purim and beyond.

In the story of Esther, Mordecai entreats his niece to step into her Jewishness to prevent atrocities from happening.

Just like Esther, we are invited to step into our power - not by moving away from our Jewishness, but by stepping into it in order to enact change.

While a looming presence of real or imaginary Nazis shaped Jewish-American children’s identity and worldview in the 1990s, those same children projected imaginary Jewishness onto the Trapp family whom they identified with in The Sound of Music.