When hiker Josh Fattal was finally released after being held for two years in Iran, his friends and family -- and particularly his synagogue -- could finally reveal a secret kept under wraps even by the news media.
Iran -- an Islamic Republic whose president repeatedly vows to destroy Israel and blames "Zionists" for most of the ills in the Middle East -- didn't need to know Fattal is Jewish or that his father lived several years in Israel, writes Steward Ain in
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