Jewishness

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.

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.

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.

Any mention of Jewish people or Jewishness is curiously absent from Nazi annexation of Austria in The Sound of Music.