Anna Hakakian, a resident of Great Neck, New York, grew up in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. At that time, Nowruz, the secular Persian New Year, offered a rare moment of respite from a conflict that ...

Tehran — Iran's significant Jewish population has been caught in the crossfire along with the rest of the Islamic Republic's population amid the U.S.-Israeli war with their country. For some, it's ...

Sahar Saidian wore two pins on her lapel -- an Israeli flag and an Iranian flag from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution — Odd ANDERSEN For Sahar Saidian, past and present collide every day on the ...

In the 1950s, Younes Dardashti, a Jewish man from Tehran’s Jewish ghetto, became one of Iran’s most celebrated singers. As the country underwent rapid secularization under the Shah, Jewish communities ...

“This is the time of rebirth, a new beginning,’’ Nazarzadeh said. “Nowruz means ‘new day.’ And this is my wish, of course, for all Iranians, whether they’re living in diaspora or living in Iran or ...

Tehran: As tensions involving Iran, the United States and Israel persist, members of Iran’s Jewish community have reaffirmed their national identity, emphasising their connection to the country. In a ...

As the United States and Israel continue the war which might free the Iranian people from a tyrannical regime, the yearning of the people of Israel for positive relations with the Iranian people has ...

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