NYT columnist defends himself in L.A.

New York Times op-ed columnist Roger Cohen incurred the wrath of many Persian Jews here when he wrote last month that Jews in Iran have it pretty good. "I’m a Jew and have seldom been treated with such consistent warmth as in Iran,” he wrote. The Tehran diaspora on the Westside doesn't see it that way, so last night Cohen came to talk it out at a Sinai Temple event moderated by Rabbi David Wolpe. Video at the Jewish Journal