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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
A physician and religious fanatic from Brooklyn, New York who immigrated to Israel in 1982, Baruch Goldstein would go down in history as one of the world’s worst mass murderers. On the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim 28 years ago today, Goldstein sat with his children and other settler families in Hebron’s illegal Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba reading the Megillah – the Book of Esther. It is believed to be a firsthand account commemorating Persian king Ahasuerus’s wife, Esther, who saved the Jews from her husband’s viceroy Haman. For most Jews, the Purim story is celebratory and the holi…