The complex tale of how the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great—the world's first Zionist—metamorphosed into the Israel-hating Iran we know today.
Abdol Hossein Sardari didn't look like a hero. But when Paris fell to Hitler in June 1940, the 30-year-old Muslim—a dapper man with a receeding hairline—took it upon himself to save Jews trapped inside Nazi-occupied France. Sardari, a junior official at the Iranian Embassy, had been left behind to look after the building when the Iranian ambassador abandoned Paris to establish residence in Vichy, the new home of France's pro-Nazi government. Once the Nazis begin rounding up Jews, Sardari, without authorization from his government, made liberal use of the embassy's supply of blank Iranian passports to assign new, non-Jewish identities to those in need, creating his own version of Schindler's list. Read more …
"It seemed as if the violence in the world had lessened. The wars, the massacres in Africa and Asia, had slowed to a halt. No killings, no bloodshed. Quiet was in the air. Something was happening…" Read more…
Nearly five years after his son, Daniel, was beheaded by Islamic militants, Judea Pearl reflects on what it means to be Jewish and how to make the world a safer place. Read more…
