Vashti’s training regimen these last few months? Avoiding illness amid a global heath crisis, obviously. “I think the one thing I know I am going to change when I get closer to the Olympics is who I ...

Rachel Glenn, second, Charity Hufnagel, first, and Vashti Cunningham, third place, pose with their medals and flags after competing in the women's high jump final on Day Four of the 2024 U.S. Olympic ...

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Vashti Cunningham flutters her fingers, presses her lips tight into a determined scowl, bores her eyes into the ground, rocks backward and, on a calm January afternoon in Las Vegas, explodes. Her ...

(RNS) — It’s sad to see a carefully preserved Jewish historical tradition sacrificed on the altar of a contemporary ism. On Purim, observant Jewish men, to varying degrees, imbibe strong drink. And ...

Vashti Cunningham, the daughter of a NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham and pro South African ballerina Felicity deJager, is poised to become the world's best high jumper. This story first appeared in ...

Queen Vashti refuses to obey King Achashverosh's command to attend a banquet to display her beauty.(Culture Club/Getty Images) Purim was probably my favourite day of the year at my Jewish day school.

“Is Vashti the evil queen of the Purim story?” my daughter asked me after a recent Hebrew school class. Vashti, of course, was the erstwhile queen of Persia, according to the Bible’s Book of Esther.

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