Iranians Are Abandoning Their Anti-Zionism
The shah’s son visits Israel.
June 21, 2023
As descendants of forced converts return to Judaism.
Jews have likely been living in Sicily since before the destruction of the Second Temple, and a community flourished there until, in 1492, the Spanish monarchy—which then ruled the island—decreed that all Jews in their lands must convert to Catholicism or leave. Now, descendants of those Jews are attempting a revival. David I. Klein writes:
The shah’s son visits Israel.
A sign of how far the Jewish state has come—and a strategic necessity.
A theological conviction that one people bears the sins of humanity.
The rebbe, the president, and the poet.
As descendants of forced converts return to Judaism.
Jews have likely been living in Sicily since before the destruction of the Second Temple, and a community flourished there until, in 1492, the Spanish monarchy—which then ruled the island—decreed that all Jews in their lands must convert to Catholicism or leave. Now, descendants of those Jews are attempting a revival. David I. Klein writes:
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