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"Esther and Mordechai," oil on canvas, 1675. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Who’s their favorite Purim person and why?

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March 4, 2020 0

You may not find it surprising that Mordechai and Esther are the most popular in our (wildly unscientific) JNS “Favorite Purim Person” poll. After all, Esther was a young orphan girl living in Shushan, the...

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Who’s their favorite Purim person and why?