Published in October, it is seen as an addendum to Heritage’s better-known Project 2025. Project Esther — which appears to have been written by evangelical Christians with almost no Jewish input — ...

He noted that the Texas curriculum, called Bluebonnet, not only misrepresents Esther’s story but also imposes modern ...

The story can be read as proto-feminist, with Esther saving her people from within Persia’s patriarchy. The tale is also a theological meditation: The rare absence of God’s name in the text ...