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December 2006
Features
How Jew-Friendly Persia Become Anti-Semitic Iran
Robert s. Greenberger
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.
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Moment-Karma Foundation Short Fiction: The Day the Messiah Came
William D. Kaufman
"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…"
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My Lunch with Sandra Froman
Mara Weinstein Bilson
The first Jewish president of the National Rifle Association shoots the breeze about elk, defenseless women and gun control.
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A Jewish Life: The Price of Being Jewish
Susan Fishman Orlins
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.
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Essay: Finding my India
Carmit Delman
In her mother's homeland, an American bride discovers Hebrew-speaking Indian waiters, a Himalayan mikvah and new ways of seeing life.
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Departments
From the Editor
Nadine Epstein
Opinion
GersHon Gorenberg
Donors to Israel should question where their money goes.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The time has come—once again—for rabble rousing.
Dennis Prager
Wake up! Judaism does have an afterlife.
Hershel Shanks
Should we conjure up natural explanations for miracles?
Letters
Jewish Enterprise
A rabbi in Israel fights for a paycheck— and recognition.
Ask the Rabbis
When and how should Jewish parents talk to their children about sex?
Books
Jeffrey Goldberg's Prisoners
FDR and the Holocaust
A Photographer's Life
A Moment with…
Robert Satloff on Arabs who saved the Jews during the Holocaust.