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Iran's Jewish community maintains low profile amid nationwide protests - KAN

Members of Iran’s roughly 8,000-strong Jewish community are avoiding protest flashpoints as unrest spreads nationwide, according to a report by Israel’s public broadcaster KAN News.

Iranian Jews, including Rabbi Younes Hamami Lahlezar (R), hold an anti-Israel meeting in a Tehran synagogue in solidarity with Hamas terrorists and Gaza amid the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War, October 30, 2023; illustrative.
FOR IRAN’S Christian community, the postwar crackdown has been particularly severe, with at least 50 members detained by authorities. Here, Iranian Christians take part in the New Year prayer ceremony at a church in Tehran last January.

When faith comes under fire: How Iran’s repression of religious minorities has increased

THE HISTORY of Jewish-Persian friendship goes back over 2,500 years, and it is unlikely there is any other example of two civilizations enjoying such a long and prosperous relationship. Here, anti-Iranian regime protesters wave the Iranian Lion and Sun flag before the 1979 revolution and Israeli fla

Fifty years of Islamic rule can’t erase 2,600 years of Jewish-Iranian friendship

Homayoun Sameyah Najafabadi vists the Beheshtieh Jewish cemetery in southern Tehran, January 9, 2015

Iran authorities summon Jewish rep. over community's pro-Israel likes on social media


At least five Jews arrested by Iran during protests against Islamic Republic

"The Jewish community in Iran is under pressure," an Iranian dissident said. "Like other Iranians, also Jewish Iranians are oppressed."

Iranians hold flags during a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022

Court acquits Israeli woman of being an Iranian spy - 4 other defendants may still be convicted

The Jerusalem District Court on Monday acquitted a 50-year-old Iranian-Israeli woman of spying for Tehran, as part of a wider case.

  Iranian agent "Rambud Namdar." (Composite image)

Iran’s Raisi says research needed to verify if Holocaust happened

"There are some signs that it happened. If so, they should allow it to be investigated and researched," said Iranian President Raisi about the Holocaust.

 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 15, 2022.

The changing nature of retrospection and repentance

We all face various tests in our life. Elul is a month that calls upon the introspective individual to reflect on the struggles confronted during the past year.

 THE DAYS leading up to Yom Kippur allow us to begin the process of repair.

Iran temporarily releases elderly Jewish man jailed for living in Israel

"It’s an alarm and likely indication of other Jews behind bars for similar reasons."

A prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran's Evin prison June 13, 2006.

Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

When met with a crisis — when the king’s evil adviser, Haman, decreed that all the Jews were to be killed — Esther looked deep within herself and realized she had strength.

'Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther' by Rembrandt, 1660, at Moscow's Pushkin Museum

Growing up in Iran made parenting through Hanukkah hard in the US

Hanukkah was hard for Persian families like mine, because 'if you're not suffering, you're not doing it right' was the guiding mentality.

Rooftops of Yazd on a sunny winter day in Iran.

US Holocaust Memorial, Iranian website launch Holocaust education project

The project, named after Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat based in Paris who saved many Iranian and non-Iranian Jews in occupied France.

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Jews from Arab countries, Iran are in need of support

The Kaddish Initiative takes root

Baghdad Jewish cemetery where Sass Peress' paternal grandfather is buried.

Grapevine June 19, 2020: Independence on social media

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

RAISING THE flag ceremony on Philippines Independence Day.