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In this June 26, 2009 file photo BBC Persian service presenter Fardad Farahzad, right, gets ready to present the news, at the corporation's London headquarters Inside the studios of BBC Persian television, dozens of journalists have been working around the clock at their computers and telephones, trying to report the news to Iran or, according to the government in Tehran, stirring up trouble. (AP Photo/Simon Dawson,file)
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
Iranian Islamic Republic Army soldiers carry posters of the Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution of 1979. (Keystone/Getty Images/via JTA)
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
These Jewish-minted coins from Yehud, a province of semiautonomous Jewish rule under the Persian Empire, were discovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. (courtesy Temple Mount Sifting Project)
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
Mohammad Delavari, left, and two members of his filming crew interviewing Iris Tzur at her home in Amsterdam, March 1, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
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
Iranian youths sit at a cafe in Tehran (AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
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 and Ali Noorani
Farideh Goldin in her Norfolk, Virginia studio. Goldin has written several titles on the Persian-Jewish experience, particularly the female experience, as well as many essays and scholarly articles (Princess Perry)
June 5, 2016, 10:39 pm
Exiled from Iran, daughter heals fractured family in telling its saga
Farideh Goldin left her native Iran at 23, while her ‘baba’ stayed. Fulfilling a promise to her father, today she writes extensively on the Persian-Jewish experience
By Leeron Hoory
Persian Orthodox Jew Pedram Bral, who won a June 18 election to become Mayor of Great Neck, New York (Uli Seit/©Newsday LLC)
August 5, 2015, 12:33 am
Iranian Jewish expats call Islamic regime ‘liars,’ bemoan world’s naiveté
Long Island’s Persian Jews wax nostalgic for their homeland, but fear Iran deal’s ramifications for Israel
By Lori Silberman Brauner
A store in the Persian quarter of Los Angeles (public domain/Wikimedia Commons)
July 15, 2015, 5:00 pm
In ‘Tehrangeles,’ hopes and fears over nuke deal
In LA expat community, most Persians believe agreement will boost economy but doubt it’ll improve human rights
By Veronique DUPONT
The kitchen in Persian restaurant Salimi, in Tel Aviv's Florentine neighborhood. Persian Jews and their culinary supporters are worried about the nuclear deal's ineffectiveness. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
July 14, 2015, 7:09 pm
In Tel Aviv, Iranian-Israelis chew over nuke deal
Lunch at two popular Persian restaurants served with a side of red-hot scorn for Obama, concern for the future
By Melanie Lidman
An assortment of festive hamentaschen. (Shannon Sarna/JTA)
March 1, 2015, 2:41 pm
A triangle of flavors from ancient Persia
Rosewater, white chocolate and pistachio hamantaschen will transport you to the days of Mordechai and Esther
By Shannon Sarna
Iranian officials attend a ceremony to unveil a monument in Tehran December 15, 2014, honoring fallen Jewish soldiers. (Photo credit: IRNA)
January 22, 2015, 1:58 am
Iran chief rabbi said to condemn Muhammad cartoons
Jewish leader allegedly says Charlie Hebdo publishers deserve death sentence; says ‘insulting religion is insulting God’
By TOI staff
Iranian singer Parham Haghighi performs the role of Sabbatai Tzvi in 'Seekers of Light,' an opera written by Boston-based Israeli composer Matti Kovler. Seven scenes from the libretto were premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Wed. night (photo credit: Jared Wickerham/The Times of Israel)
December 19, 2014, 3:08 pm
‘Hanukkah miracle’ at Boston museum’s joint Israeli-Iranian show
Musicians from ‘enemy’ countries perform in Hebrew and Persian in ‘Seekers of Light,’ an opera based on infamous Sabbatai Tzvi
By Matt Lebovic
Persian artifacts on display at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)
March 29, 2014, 4:22 am
Israel terror victims can’t take Persian relics in reparation
In ruling related to Iranian-backed 1997 bombing in Jerusalem, US judge sides with museums which asked not to harm collections
By AP
Cast of 'Saffron & Rosewater' performing at the 92nd Street Y in New York (photo credit: Joyce Culver)
December 14, 2013, 2:05 am
Persian women stage bittersweet memories in new play
Jewish Iranian-American authors give insight into their past and present in a NY performance of ‘Saffron & Rosewater’
By Mark Schulman
Israelis dancing at a Purim party in the Israeli Embassy in Tehran in the late 1970s. (photo credit: screenshot from 'Before the Revolution,' courtesy Journeyman Pictures)
November 1, 2013, 2:50 pm
Did Israel, under the shah, help start Iran’s nuclear program?
A new documentary recalls the ‘paradise in a bubble’ of Israelis in Iran before 1979. It also suggests they played an initial role in setting Iran on the nuclear path
By Raphael Ahren
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