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Screenshot of video said to show service at Tehran synagogue, September 2023 (Kan, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 16, 2023, 9:31 am
Worshipers pack Tehran synagogue for Selichot service ahead of Rosh Hashanah
Prayers also held for Jewish New Year at Cairo synagogue for first time in 70 years
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Travelers seen arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, on September 7, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
August 11, 2023, 4:49 pm
Jewish Iranian stopped at airport on spying suspicions, sent back to Iran – Shin Bet
Agency says man, who has family in Israel, was instructed by Iran’s security services to spy on various targets in country; was given empty tissue box to hide spy tech
By Emanuel Fabian
In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police while in custody, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Middle East Images/AP)
December 20, 2022, 2:50 pm
Member of Iran’s Jewish community remains in custody over protests as 2nd released
Individual still held in Tehran, source says; three members of the Jewish community were initially arrested earlier this month during regime crackdown
By ToI Staff
Morocco's Achraf Daria, with a Palestine flag, celebrates next to his teammate Sofiane Boufa after the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Morocco and Portugal, at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha, Qatar, December 10, 2022. Morocco won 1-0.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
December 11, 2022, 1:38 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Why do Moroccan soccer fans wave the Palestinian flag?
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman on Iranian Jews and the new Peru government; Palestinian affairs correspondent Jack Mukand on PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s media blitz
By ToI Staff
A motorcycle of Basij, Iranian paramilitary militia, is set on fire during a protest after a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini's death when she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)
December 10, 2022, 4:35 pm
3 members of Iran’s Jewish community arrested amid protests; 1 released
Two people detained in Tehran and third individual arrested in Shiraz; community members express hope all will be freed soon
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this November 20, 2014 photo, Iranian Jews enter the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, in the city of Yazd 420 miles (676 kilometers) south of capital Tehran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
November 24, 2022, 8:23 pm
Tehran Jewish community says it sides with regime amid Iran protests
In letter, Iranian Jewish body condemns deadly unrest by ‘enemies’ seeking to ‘target unity of people’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: In this photo from November 20, 2014, an Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, in the city of Yazd 420 miles (676 kilometers) south of capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 23, 2022, 1:12 pm
In unprecedented move, Tehran Jewish community calls to avoid synagogues amid unrest
Apparently for the first time, Iran’s leading Jewish body says synagogues must close daily at 5 p.m., citing need to protect life as protests rage over woman’s death
By ToI Staff
As of the taking of this photograph in 2007, Shamsi was one of three Jews who live in the Ezra Jacob Synagogue in Tehran. (Hassan Sarbakhsian/ via JTA)
September 6, 2022, 12:57 pm
Journalist forced to flee after capturing rare images of Iranian Jews publishes book
15 years after a Muslim AP newsman photographed daily life of Jews in the nation that is home to the Middle East’s second-largest community, his unique project finally sees light
By Lauren Hakimi
Illustrative: In this photo from November 20, 2014, an Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue, in the city of Yazd 420 miles (676 kilometers) south of capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 1, 2022, 2:06 pm
‘She’s in real danger’: Jew who escaped Iran pleads with Israel to let his wife in
Woman is in immediate danger of deportation from Turkey to Iran, with Israel-based family fearing for her life; ‘This is clearly a humanitarian case,’ says attorney
By ToI Staff
Jacob Yisrael Herzog praying in his Riyadh hotel room, November 29, 2021. (Courtesy)
February 20, 2022, 7:45 pm
Israeli rabbi visits Iran, meets with local leaders and documents his trip
Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Jacob Yisrael Herzog, who previously attempted to establish Jewish community in Saudi Arabia, tours Iran’s Jewish sites, meets religious leaders
By Tobias Siegal
Left: The book cover of 'Titan of Tehran.' Right: Habib Elghanian, a prominent leader of Iran's Jewish community, seen during his trial in Iran that led to his 1979 execution. (Collage by Grace Yagel/JTA)
January 6, 2022, 3:11 am
An Iranian Jewish leader was executed in 1979. His granddaughter tells his story
In ‘Titan of Tehran,’ Shahrzad Elghanayan writes about her grandfather, a philanthropist who gave his life rather than abandon his community during the Islamic Revolution
By Howard Lovy
Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, chief rabbi of Iran, speaks at Chabad of NoVa, November 14, 2021 (screenshot)
November 15, 2021, 5:22 am
In US, Iran’s head rabbi says he condemned Soleimani killing to protect Jews
Yehuda Gerami, speaking in Fairfax, VA, says he visited family of assassinated Quds Force general to relieve pressure on local community: ‘We have to use our wisdom, we are guests’
By Lazar Berman
Arash Abaie, top right, a leader of the Tehran Jewish community, is interviewed via Zoom by Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, top left, Feb. 28, 2021. Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, dean of the university's Center for the Jewish Future, which sponsored the program, is below. (Screen capture/JTA)
March 5, 2021, 11:36 pm
Iranian Jewish leader tells US rabbi community freely observes its religion
Arash Abaie says regime’s commitment to religious law benefits observant citizens from all religions, adding that local Muslims respect, understand Jewish customs
By Gary Rosenblatt
Jacqueline Saper at age 16 in 1977, before the 1979 Iranian Revolution (left), and at age 23 in 1982. (right).
December 4, 2020, 4:47 am
Miniskirted no more: Jewish woman charts 8 years of oppression under Iran regime
In award-winning memoir ‘From Miniskirt to Hijab,’ Jacqueline Saper explains how watching her 6-year-old daughter don a hijab for 1st grade forced her to finally flee her homeland
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, who immigrated from Iran as a child after the Iranian Revolution, describes herself as a progressive prosecutor. (Courtesy of Farhadian Weinstein/via JTA)
July 29, 2020, 5:15 am
Iranian-Jewish ‘progressive prosecutor’ in the running to be Manhattan’s DA
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, former general counsel to the Brooklyn district attorney, says she sees herself in the immigrants waiting at US borders and wants to pay it forward
By Shira Hanau
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