Iranian Jewish community balances faith and caution in Pre-Rosh Hashanah prayers.
The call of the shofar is a demand not to accept a broken world and a warning not to look the other way when people need us.
IRANIAN AFFAIRS: Despite the Iranian regime clamping down with modesty laws, the Iranian people are pushing for freedom.
Let us be the guardians of hope, the champions of justice, and the harbingers of a new dawn where the spirit of Mahsa Amini lives on, vibrant and undying, in a free and democratic Iran.
The Iranian Jewish community leaders' warning comes amid heightened tensions in Tehran ahead of the 1-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini.
Videos of fire damage outside the embassy have circulated online.
Israeli singer Itay Ben David sang the song "Baraye," written by Iranian singer-songwriter Shervin Hajipour amid last year's protests.
Iranian authorities have intensified their crackdown on activists and relatives of protesters ahead of the anniversary of Amini's death.
Mass protests rocked Iran last fall and continued into January as a result of the killing of the young Kurdish girl by the Iranian regime.
The UN said that this is "gender discrimination designed to bring the women of Iran into complete submission."
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