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Every year on Purim I listen for the same word near the end of the Megillah. It comes tumbling out almost casually — v’nahafoch hu — “and it was reversed.” The decree to annihilate the Jews of Persia ...

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Spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the ethnic group of 40 million has long sought, and fought for, greater autonomy.

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