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End of Israel-Iran war tests the harmony of LA’s huge, mixed-faith Iranian community
By
DEEPA BHARATH
Fallout of the 12-day war has come to ‘Tehrangeles,’ the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world; ‘It’s been an emotional roller coaster,’ says one local
July 5, 2025, 8:31 pm
End of Israel-Iran war tests the harmony of LA’s huge, mixed-faith Iranian community
Fallout of the 12-day war has come to ‘Tehrangeles,’ the largest Iranian diaspora community in the world; ‘It’s been an emotional roller coaster,’ says one local
By
DEEPA BHARATH
June 25, 2025, 7:30 pm
For Iranian-Americans, Israel-Iran war brought out complex feelings of fear and hope
While much of the diaspora is desperate for change in Tehran, most agree it can’t come from US or Israel: ‘We want to do it internally… not through bombing’
By
MARIAM FAM
November 6, 2022, 6:56 pm
Sounds of Sufism combine with Persian music in Oud Festival
Sitar, ney, daf and santur are some of the instruments recruited to tell the story of a 13th-century mystic’s voyage, highlight of an annual event celebrating Middle Eastern music
By
Jessica Steinberg
October 6, 2022, 8:35 pm
Israelis rally in Jerusalem in solidarity with Iranian women protesters
‘We want to say here in Israel that we believe you deserve your freedom,’ says co-organizer Shoshana Keats Jaskoll, as protesters wave signs in Hebrew, English and Farsi
By
Amy Spiro
January 20, 2022, 6:31 pm
In questioning, women in Iran espionage case insist they had no sinister intentions
Report quotes 2 targets, who had both faced marital problems and are now accused of spying, saying agent offered them money, tried to lure them abroad
By
Michael Bachner
January 12, 2022, 10:21 pm
‘I was in total shock’: Likud MK among those targeted in Iranian espionage operation
Keti Shitrit says one of women nabbed by Shin Bet reached out to ask for help in getting her son transferred into the IDF’s elite 8200 intelligence unit
By
ToI Staff
January 12, 2022, 5:06 pm
Shin Bet arrests 5 Jewish Israelis suspected of spying for Iran
Suspects photographed sensitive sites in Israel, attempted to get their kids to join army intelligence units; Bennett tells citizens ‘to be vigilant’ against such online attempts
By
Judah Ari Gross
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
June 22, 2020, 3:33 am
Persian Jews in US come out of the closet, breaking long-held community taboos
Recent years have seen rapid change as more LGBTQ community members speak up, leading to wider education, acceptance, and more events and resources for themselves and family
By
Josefin Dolsten
December 15, 2019, 7:17 am
Police investigating hate crime after Los Angeles synagogue ransacked
Suspect destroys relics at Beverly Hills Nessah Synagogue, which serves the area’s large Persian community; police say attack shows no signs of overt anti-Semitism
By
ToI Staff
March 1, 2019, 8:11 pm
BBC details new ‘harassment’ of Persian service staff by Iran
Employees describe receiving death threats targeting their children, missing parents’ funerals due to travel bans, and facing attempts by Iranian agents to recruit them as spies
By
AFP
March 1, 2019, 5:57 am
40 years after Iranian Revolution, LA’s Persian Jews are still feeling the pain
Thousands of Jewish families recall traumatic memories of violence, imprisonment, anti-Semitism and chaos after dictator Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power
By
Karmel Melamed
May 24, 2018, 8:24 pm
3 tiny, extremely rare 4th century BCE Jewish-minted coins found in Jerusalem
Struck during the Persian era, owl-inscribed ‘Yehud’ coins were discovered in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, doubling the number found in the Israeli capital
By
Amanda Borschel-Dan
March 28, 2018, 5:06 am
What a Jewish reporter learned from an afternoon with 3 Iranian journalists
Cordial interactions were superimposed over a mutual distrust, says Cnaan Lipshiz, but perhaps signify a crack in the usual demonization
By
Cnaan Liphshiz
August 19, 2016, 7:35 am
Iran’s language watchdog goes to war against ‘Nutella Bars’
Crepe and waffle cafe chain ordered to change its name in fight over Western lingo; authorities propose ‘Hot Bread, Hot Chocolate’ in Farsi
By
Eric RANDOLPH
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Ali Noorani
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