Just Like Queen Esther

A beautifully illustrated storybook for Jewish trans children about gender identity and expression explored through the story of Queen Esther and the holiday of Purim.

Rabbi Kerry Olitzky is an author and educator, and was voted by Newsweek as one of the leading 50 rabbis in North America. His most recent children’s books include Where’s the Potty on this Ark? and The Littlest Candle: A Hanukkah Story, as well as 10 animated preschool stories on the JiTap platform. Kerry is based in the New York area.
Ari Moffic is a Jewish educator and has published articles in the field of interfaith families, as well as education for neurodiverse children. She is raising a transgender child which she has written about in various Anglo-Jewish publications, such as Kveller, eJewishPhilanthropy, and Sh’ma. Ari holds an MA in Jewish education and was ordained a rabbi at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Ari is based in Illinois.