But that is not the only point of comparison between the story of Purim and modern-day times. Just as ancient ... not only through Iran’s two major attacks on Israel throughout the past year ...

In Iran. Well, ancient Persia, to be precise, the empire whose identity modern-day Iran embraces with pride. And today, of course, Iran, like its antecedent in the distant past, also threatens a ...

Warfronts Iran-Iraq War; The Modern Day Holy War Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: February 28, 2025 When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, few expected the war to last nearly a decade. With ...

Persians make up an ethnic majority of modern day Iran, according to the United States Institute of Peace. Many foreign governments used to refer to Iran as Persia prior to the country changing ...

Just as Reza Mirpanj, known as Reza Shah, adopted Turkey’s model of ethnic chauvinism in the 1930s to suppress Kurdish identity, modern-day Iran may follow suit, further complicating the region ...

which tells the story of the biblical heroine Queen Esther saving the Jewish people from extermination in what is now modern-day Iran, as they connected the plight of the Jews in the ancient city ...

Start with its treatment of women. The story begins in Shushan, Persia, geographically modern day Iran, where King Ahashverosh is holding a 180-day party for his ministers from 127 regions.

Because they were contiguous, Rome and Parthia (the area around modern-day Iran) sometimes fought, whereas Rome, China and the Mesoamerican empires did not. Empires themselves depended on hard and ...

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

Oct. 7 was a painful reminder of a truism of life — the existence of absolute, undiscerning evil. Hamas lulled us to sleep ...

in modern-day Jordan. Whatever the “MOAB” represents, it is specifically designed to destroy hardened underground facilities of the kind that comprise the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant in Iran.