The Nehdar Torah’s survival and re-emergence echoes the story of the synagogue that shelters it. In 1934, Samuel Nehdar, a leading importer in the Iranian port city of Khorramshahr, commissioned the ...

(JTA) — After a century-old synagogue in Essen ... tourists in retaliation for the killing of an Iranian colonel in Tehran, allegedly by Israeli operatives. Later last year, the Washington ...