A couple of thousand years ago, in ancient Persia—today’s Iran—a sinister, greedy, and unscrupulous man sought to exterminate the Jewish people simply because he could not bend them to his will.

Such was the magnitude of his ego and his wickedness that, merely because a single man refused to bow before him, he chose to condemn an entire nation. To justify this, he created a fiction: that these people, scattered throughout the kingdom, were dangerous to the king.

The biblical text does not explain why Haman hated the Jewish people. Probably, then as now, there was no reason at all.

Haman was not the first to falsely accuse the Jewish people. Sadly, he was not the last.

A few centuries later, another man in power in Iran—ancient Persia—just as sinister, greedy, and unscrupulous, repeated endlessly his vows for the........

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