Iran

The Jews of Iran have an incredibly long history that begins over 2,400 years ago and continues through today . . .

The Islamic Republic of Iran fired an unprecedented barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday evening local time, sending more than 10 million people into bomb shelters as Red Alerts and sirens wailed throughout the country. The attack...

The untold story of Chabad’s efforts to save eighteen hundred Jewish children during the height of the Islamic revolution in Iran.

It was a cold day in the spring of 1979 when 13-year-old Anna Monahemi arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. She came with a group of 40 Jewish girls—all of them from Iran, each of them alone. Her parents, like those of the other girls, had quie...

Shlomo Shamir is a journalist and political analyst. He was the New York correspondent for the Israeli daily, Haaretz, for over thirty-five years, and a long time columnist for the Algemeiner Journal. He met and corresponded with the Rebbe on numerous occ...

In 1979, life changed for Iranian Jews. Amid the chaos of the Revolution, the Rebbe rescued several thousand Jewish youth. Danny Yiftach was one of those children.

My mother told me that I could set my goals as high as I chose and that I could accomplish anything, but I knew that my freedom was limited

The ‘Lion of Judah’ is an emblem among Jews almost as common as the Jewish Star.

My Encounter

Finding the middle ground between military force and pacific diplomacy