Posts Tagged: Persian Empire
In Purim Remarks, Netanyahu Says Persians Didn’t Succeed in Killing Jews Then and They Won’t Succeed Now
Just as the Persians did not succeed in killing the Jews in antiquity, neither will the Iranians succeed today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday...
Dispatch from a Rampaging Camel: Purim 2013 Snapshots
The headlines from Purim 5773 were fat, loud and ominous. First, from the West Bank, dire reports of growing tensions; demonstrations in Ramallah and Hebron...
Iran and Israel, It’s Purim All Over Again
Some 2,000 years ago, the Jewish people, Exiled in the vast empire of Persia faced a plot engineered by the king's chief minister to annihilate...
