Book Excerpt

... the morning dawned cool and foggy as we made our way to Hamedan’s final site. It was a place I had not expected to see in the Islamic Republic – a Jewish holy site. A small Jewish community exists in Iran, part of it here in Hamedan caring for one of the holiest Jewish pilgrimage sites outside of Israel, the Tomb of Esther (yes, the one after whom a book of the Bible’s Old Testament is named) and Mordecai. ...