There’s plenty of traditional power to be found: King Ahasuerus ... this cause is closely associated with Queen Esther, celebrated one day before Purim as Agunah Awareness Day.

Haman devised a plan to kill off all the Jews in the 127 provinces ruled by Ahasuerus, which the king signed. The story came to a climax when Mordechai appealed to his niece, Esther, to go before ...

"About two weeks before publishing a preliminary ... "At the time of national peril of the Jews, under Ahasuerus, Mordecai spoke ... to Queen Esther, who hesitated to take the step necessary ...