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An Iranian Man in Tehran playing a well known Jewish songhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIBhS694jkY

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Brett Zongker.Associated Press. Los Angeles Times. 08/11/07(http://articles.latimes.com) WASHINGTON -- An ensemble of musicians usually separated by oceans and thousands of miles will perform together later this month for the first time, having until now composed music layer by layer, with sound files exchanged over the Internet.Their goal: Show how the arts can bridge diverse cultures -- even

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Nasser Karimi. Yahoo News/ Associated Press. 09/18/09. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090918/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran/printTEHRAN, Iran – Hard-liners attacked senior pro-reform leaders in the streets as tens of thousands marched in competing mass demonstrations by the opposition and government supporters. Opposition protesters, chanting "death to the dictator," hurled stones and bricks in clashes

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Yaroslav Trofimov. The Wall Street Journal. 6/23/2009 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124571901245939581.html#printMode)JERUSALEM—In his Friday sermon, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reserved special wrath for "Zionist radio" that he said tried to drive a wedge between the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic. Such attention from Iran's supreme leader was music to the ears of Menashe Amir, a

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/27464937@N00/115773180/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/3302891483/

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http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=iran%20israel%20norooz&w=all

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/benheine/407208157/

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http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran

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"The Iranian Revolution - 30 Years After" details about the event, including full webcast of the lectures organized by panels, as well as main findings of the CIS May-2009 survey and its media converge, are all available online via this link: http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/iranian_studies/events-30_years_after.eng.html Sincerely, The Center for Iranian Studies (CIS) Tel Aviv University Ramat

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Presentation by Iranian American Students on Iran:http://www.4shared.com/file/72691973/76cc80be/IRAN-Archaic_Signet_of_Civilization-2003.html

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Tel Aviv Annual Iran Conference:The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years AfterTel Aviv University, May 24-25thThe conference is the largest Iran symposium ever to take place in Israel, as it will bring together 40 scholars on Iran from around the world. They will assess the state of the Islamic Republic from a broad range of perspectives, including Iran's domestic and regional politics; Iranian

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Edward Cody. Washington Post Foreign Service. 04/21/09( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042000145_pf.html)PARIS, April 20 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad argued before a U.N. anti-racism conference Monday that Israel is a "paragon of racism" founded on "the pretext of Jewish sufferings" during World War II. The comments, a hard-edged version of

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Roger Cohen.The NY Times. 02/23/09. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/opinion/23cohen.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print)At Palestine Square, opposite a mosque called Al-Aqsa, is a synagogue where Jews of this ancient city gather at dawn. Over the entrance is a banner saying: “Congratulations on the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution from the Jewish community of Esfahan.” The Jews of Iran remove

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Tom Tugend. 03/16/09. JewishJournal.com(http://www.jewishjournal.com/community/article/roger_cohens_dialogue_with_the_iran_jewish_community_20090316/)Roger Cohen called Iran the most democratic state in the Middle East outside Israel. Photo courtesy of The New York TimesFor video footage of the dialogue, click here.There was no clean knockout when New York Times columnist Roger Cohen faced off

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Jewish Journal. Karmel Melamed. 03/25/09. (http://www.jewishjournal.com/50_Plus/article/oldest_jewish_immigrant_from_iran_arrives_in_la_20090325/)Heshmat Elyasian, nearly 103 years old, at Los Angeles International Airport, where she arrived with her son and his family. An Iranian Jewish client of HIAS, the international migration agency, Heshmat is the oldest refugee in HIAS records, which date

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Yoav Stern. Haaretz. 12/28/2006. (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/806545.html) Three Iranians interested in converting to Judaism recently left their native country, but have been unable to find any entity to assist them. The three Shi'ite Muslims left Iran and approached the Israeli embassy and Jewish communities in Azerbaijan, but were rejected. It is impossible to convert to Judaism in

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U.S. Civilian Diplomacy Delegation Departs for Iran; Woman Rabbi Makes Historic Visit for Peace. Ethan Vesely-Flad, Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). 04/30/08 (http://www.payvand.com/news/08/apr/1309.html)In the wake of comments on April 21st by U.S. presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, who responded to a question of a theoretical future attack by Iran on Israel by saying, "I want the

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Encyclopedia Iranica. Rachel Milstein. 11/26/2007.(http://www.iranica.com/newsite/index.isc?Article=http://www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/unicode/v14f3/v14f3001_iv.html)ISRAELiv. PERSIAN ART COLLECTIONSPersian art in most of the Israeli collections represent the entire history of Iran, with a strong emphasis on the Islamic period, and including Judaic-Persian ethnography. The following article

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Elizabeth Bryant. Chronicle Foreign Service. 01/22/09(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/MNGF15CHB7.DTL&type=printable)As Israel rained bombs on Gaza and anti-Semitic attacks hop-scotched across Europe this month, Hakima Milati worked the phones, inviting Jewish and Muslim women to visit the main mosque and synagogue in the eastern central city of Lyon.It didn't take long

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Borzou Daragahi. Los Angeles Times. 11/28/2008(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/28/MND3145AUG.DTL) In her eyes, they are all daughters and sisters. The waifish 18-year-old, already married and a mother, but with a hunger to learn. The pair of shy high school students, nervous at first, but soon browsing eagerly through the bookshelves. The matronly homemaker, unsure and

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Nazila Fathi,Isabel Kershner, New York Times. 11/26/2008.(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/26/MNT114C8QT.DTL)(11-26) 04:00 PST Tehran -- Iran has broken a spy ring working for Israeli's intelligence service, Mossad, and will seek the death penalty for three suspects in custody, Iran's prosecutor general announced Tuesday.The prosecutor general, Saeed Mortazavi, said the

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Nazila Fathi, New York Times. 11/23/2008. San Francisco Chronicle(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/23/MNJB14A9SD.DTL&type=printable)Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Saturday.The agency reported that Ali Ashtari was executed by hanging Monday. It said he was arrested in 2006 and confessed during his trial in

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Trita Parsi. 10/15/ 2008. Rootless Cosmopolitan. Tony Karon Blog. (http://tonykaron.com/2008/10/15/israel-gets-real-on-iran/#comment-38698) Guest Post: Trita Parsi The distinction between the apocalyptic rhetoric Israeli leaders use publicly in relation to Iran, and the more pragmatic view they hold among themselves on how to deal with Tehran and its nuclear program, has long been clear to anyone

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Joel Greenberg. The New York Times. 02/20/1998. (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D00E1DE103FF933A15751C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print) The young woman calling from Iran spoke very quietly into the telephone. ''Thank you for your very good program,'' she said to the answering machine of Israeli radio's Persian-language service. ''Your news is very reliable, because in our

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Amir Mizroch. The Jerusalem Post. 07/08/2007. (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1183901655227&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter)While American and Israeli leaders vow that all options remain on the table in dealing with Iran's race to acquire nuclear weapons, it seems that all options are being kept open on the desktop as well. The Foreign Ministry unveiled a Persian-language

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Nima Tamaddon. 07/06/2008. Iranian.com (http://www.iranian.com/main) On Saturday, June 28, when the fear of looming [1]war [2]against Iran [3] was on the rise, here, in Prague, Iranian and Israeli musicians came together to perform in a warm and memorable concert in a prestigious and the oldest Czech world music festival, Respect [4], in a Woodstockesque flavor and atmosphere. [photos [5]]Saeed

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Dudi Cohen. Y Net News. 08/14/08(http://www.ynet.co.il/english/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3582488,00.html)Parliament members call on President Ahmadinejad to deal 'with severity' with his deputy who was quoted as saying Iranians are 'friends of all people in the world — even Israelis' Parliament members call on President Ahmadinejad to deal 'with severity' with his

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Interfaithfamily.com. Accessed 08/05/08. By Menachem Wecker (http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/books/Can_History_and_Scripture_Repair_Jewish-Muslim_Relations.shtml?tr=y&auid=3877375)Review of Introduction to Islam For Jews, by Reuven Firestone (The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2008)If ancient sacred texts became instrumental in creating a modern international

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Trita Parsi. 07/07/08. IPS News.(http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43097) WASHINGTON, Jul 7 (IPS) - Conciliatory noises from Tehran over the nuclear issue have left Washington and Brussels baffled, and unconvinced of Iran's intentions. Having grown accustomed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's uncompromising language, Tehran's new tone has raised more suspicion than hope among cynics in

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Shlomo Ben-Ami and Trita Parsi07/02/08CSR Monitor (http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0702/p09s01-coop.html)Serious diplomacy, not military action, will bring regional securityWashington and Jerusalem - Is war between Israel and Iran inevitable? To listen to Iran's radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Israel's Iranian-born transportation minister Shaul Mofaz, or even recent reports that Israel

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Yoav Stern, Haaretz. 04/14/2007(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/848044.html) Israel has refused entry to the Muslim wife of a Jewish immigrant from Iran. The wife is currently in Turkey but could be sent back to Iran within days, where she is likely to be severely punished. The immigrant, Puriya Hajaram on Thursday appealed to Haaretz for help in bringing his wife to Israel. "I was told

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Unfortunately, the Iranian government has invested its time and resources in creating a cartoon series aimed at increasing fear and anti-semitism in the minds of young people. See an excerpt of this new series thanks the Middle East Research Institute's TV Monitor project:http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1715.htm

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Karmel Melamed. Contributing Writer. 4/4/08. Jewish Journal (http://jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=19158) Dariush live in Las Vegas 2007The concert at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas was advertised as a "night to remember," and it lived up to the hype. During the Dariush Eghbali concert on Dec. 23, which drew about 5,000 Iranian Americans, local Iranian Jewish fans

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Lily Galili 06/10/07(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/868822.html) PRAGUE - Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last shah of Iran, suggests taking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to annihilate Israel very seriously. However, he suggests refraining from military action against his country.That's not what scares the regime there," he explains. "What scares it are the opponents from within, who

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JTA03/28/2008http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107770.html)Thirty Iranian expatriates living in Berlin will visit Auschwitz in April.The ex-pats want to show Iran's president, who has denied the scope of the Holocaust, that they have no doubt about the facts of the Holocaust, "the most massive, industrialized extermination in the 20th century," a statement by organizers said.The trip, from

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Golbarg Bashi. © Qantara.de 2006. Accessed 04/02/08.(http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-512/i.html)One Step Forward, Many More to TakeIt was reported late in September 2006 that for the first time in Iranian history an unprecedented law had been passed in the parliament to "offer" Iranian citizenship to children born to Iranian mothers and non-Iranian fathers. Golbarg Bashi

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by Arash Norouzi(http://www.mohammadmossadegh.com/news/rumor-of-the-century/)Accessed 03/03/08Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as the following

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By RONNIE SCHEIBA Forties B production. Produced by Tanaz Eshaghian. Executive producer, E. Ike Eshaghian, Alexandra Kerry. Directed by Tanaz Eshaghian.(http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117929780.html?categoryid=31&cs=1)02/24/2006 A wryly entertaining first-person account, "Love Iranian-American Style" catalogs filmmaker Tanaz Eshaghian's all-over-the-map reactions to her Jewish-Iranian family's

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Stanley A. Weiss. International Herald Tribune. 07/10/2006http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/opinion/edweiss.phpLONDON: As an American Jew visiting Iran, I apparently made an irresistible target. "Zionist Israel," an Iranian official instructed me, was the root of all problems in the Middle East; a Western "colonial imposition" on Muslim lands that must be reversed."It's Iran's own fault," I

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"According to Goldman, who puts on parenting workshops for adults throughout the academic year, several factors explain the double standard. First is the influence of the Islamic culture that, some critics say, dictates the second-class status of women." Wrong and even if it were true why would a community nearly 10000 miles from those nasty Moslems and after 30 years would still choose to

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Radio TranscriptAll Things Considered: September 20, 2007http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=14574945ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Here's a scene from "Zero Degree Turn," a popular serial that's running on television overseas. It's Paris 1940-something, Nazis are rousting French Jews from their homes deporting them to concentration camps. (Soundbite of show "Zero Degree Turn")

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Accessed 12/28/07Associated Presshttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/25/israel.iranianexodus.ap/index.htmlTEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Greeted by joyous relatives and a crowd of reporters, about 40 Iranian Jews landed in Israel on Tuesday, leaving behind their lives in the Islamic republic for new homes in the Jewish state.Iranian Jews, who didn't want to be identified, arrive at Ben Gurion

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Yoram Hamizrachi. The Golden Lion and the Sun. 1982 An adventurous tale in which the CIA pairs a tough Persian general with a retired Israeli spy to rescue Iranian hostages in the early 1980s.

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TV Guide. (http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Biz/Christiane-Amanpour-Reports/800020457)Stephen Battaglio08/15/2007 Christiane Amanpour courtesy CNNCNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has been reporting from overseas hot spots since 1989, so she knows firsthand about God's Warriors, the subject of her three-part documentary series airing Aug. 21 to

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The Iranian. (http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/July/Sedaghat/index.html)Nakissa Sedaghat. 07/24/2001G. is a brilliant lawyer from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI). A secular Jew herself, she has often come across cases that reflect the tensions between the Ultra-Orthodox minority and the secular Jewish majority in Israel. S. is a Palestinian lawyer who also practices public

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Inter Press Service News AgencyTrita ParsiAccessed 12/07/07http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40373) WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (IPS) - The U.S. National Intelligence Estimate's assertion that Iran currently does not have a nuclear weapons programme has caused much frustration in Israel. Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh referred to the report as a lie at a recent breakfast in New York, and

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Radio Israel Program in Farsihttp://www.radis.org/

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USA Today. 10.23.07http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2007-10-22-israel-iranian-jews_N.htm)JERUSALEM (AP) — Evangelical Christians in the U.S. have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to Israel in recent months, offering cash incentives and claiming that Iran's tiny Jewish community is in grave danger.The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, a charity that funnels

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By Reuters. 11.08.07(http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=717538&contrassID=19) Tehran-born Israeli Meir Javedanfar fondly recalls sitting around a television set with his Muslim friends back in Iran drinking copious cups of sweet tea while proudly watching the national soccer team play. With a growing crisis between the West and Iran over its nuclear program, Javedanfar is

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Viewers riveted by show that depicts Holocaust, rarely mentioned in Iran9.16.07Nasser Karimi(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/16/international/i120043D29.DTL)TEHRAN, Iran - It is Iran's version of "Schindler's List," a miniseries that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust — and viewers across the country are riveted. That's

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By only focusing on most extreme, radical notions coming out of Tehran, we let radicals win (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3459623,00.html) Trita Parsi Ynetnews.comIran’s firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received the worst possible welcome in New York, yet he managed to walk away the winner. He should dedicate his victory to Lee Bollinger, the President of Columbia University

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Trita Parsi posted on the blog of Tony Karon (http://tonykaron.com/2007/10/09/iran-the-inflatable-bogey/).Accessed 10/10/07For additional discussion on this article, please refer to Tony Karon's blog referenced above.I’m delighted and honored to welcome Dr. Trita Parsi as a guest columnist at Rootless Cosmopolitan. Following the escalating tension between Iran and the West over the past two years

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Review by Lale' ShahparakiAccessed 10/04/2007(http://persianmirror.com/Article_det.cfm?id=1729&getArticleCategory=79&getArticleSubCategory=128)An Ambitious International Collaboration among Iranian, Israeli and American Artists is worth your support! Created by Mahmood Karimi-Hakak, Motti Lerner, Roberta Levitow, Daniel Michaelson and Torange Yeghiazarian San Francisco - Golden Thread Productions

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THE JERUSALEM POST. Yaniv Salma-Scheer. 01/31/2007(http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467851416&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)"Dear Yad Vashem, we just wanted to say thanks for the good information. I am an Iranian, but I love Israel and the Jewish nation, and wish the best for them, unlike our crazy President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad." "Your site uses very simple and unbiased

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Reuters. 9/19/06.(http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15033.htm)LONDON, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Former Israeli commandos secretly trained Kurdish soldiers in northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations, the BBC television reported on Tuesday. Former Israeli special forces soldiers entered Iraq from Turkey in 2004 to train two groups of Kurdish

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The Associated Press. 5/7/2007. ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18528557/)JERUSALEM - When Iranian agents boarded an airplane that made an emergency landing in Tehran, the only Israeli passenger on board feared the worst. Instead, he left with a gift of a wooden music box and an invitation to return when times are better.Israeli scientist Benny Medvedev told Israeli media that he spent several

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The Jewish Daily Forward. (http://www.forward.com/articles/11283/) 08/03/07Over the past six years, Barbie, now 48, has been given a run for her money. The blond-haired, blue-eyed doll with impossible proportions has had to compete with Bratz, a collection of multicultural tweens with such names as Sasha and Jade. The impetus behind these dolls is an Iranian Jew by the name of Jasmin Larian whose

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Modi Kreitman. Ynet News.com. Accessed July 18, 2007(http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3353505,00.html)In middle of FA Cup soccer match, after Iranian midfielder Andranik Teimourian scores goal for Bolton, he is embraced by Israeli teammate Idan TalLONDON - It is an image you can see in almost any soccer match: One of the players scores a goal, and his

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A.s. MostafanejadIranian.com05/16/2006 http://www.iranian.com/Mostafanejad/2006/May/Minority/index.htmlWhen I was a child in Tehran my father was the only Bahai in his family. His father had been a Bahai and had passed away prior to my birth and his mother was a Moslem. On my mother's side her mother was a Bahai but her father was a Moslem. My upbringing was as a Bahai but my relatives were of

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Arshin Adib-MoghaddamMR Zine. 03/05/07 http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/aam030507.htmlWhen the chairman of Iran's Jewish Council, Haroun Yashayaei, criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a letter condemning his remarks on the Holocaust, he was supported by a range of Iranian intellectuals, artists, poets, and others both within the country and without. For those amongst us with some

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Interfaithfamily.com. Growing Up in an Interfaith FamilyIssue 212: July 10, 2007(http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297382&ct=4063597&tr=y&auid=2826038)Tiffany CollinsIn 1976, I was born without a name. I continued to be nameless for two weeks because my parents could not agree on one. At the time they may not have understood the source of their problems,

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Middle East Media Research Institute. Iranian Children's Show Villainizes Jews:http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1329#

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An anthology prepared by students in Professor Gissler's 2001 seminarShandray Mehdian(http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/race/2001/date_mehdian.shtml)Accessed 06/ 25/2007)It was not a typical teen-age fight over a girl. The outraged student at Great Neck North High School in suburban Long Island was defending the honor of his Jewish-Iranian sister who had been smeared by what he deemed a

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The Stephen Roth Institute for Comparative Anti-Semitistm and Racism. Tel Aviv University. David Menashri[*] Accessed 06/07/2007(http://www.antisemitism.tau.ac.il/asw2005/menashri.html) During the last two centuries, Iranian politics have oscillated between extremes as the country has searched for a viable path to confront the challenges of modernity. Since the late eighteenth century, it has

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Jackie Levin. Sep 15 2006 (http://cornellsun.com/node/18292). Accessed May 17, 2007.“There’s something I’d like to get off my chest here because it’s been a real crowd-pleaser these days. [pause] I’m Iranian ... and Jewish! Now, I know what you’re all thinking: ‘Should I hate him ... or hate him?’” — comedian Dan Ahdoot.Like the very funny Mr. Ahdoot, I, too, am an Iranian Jew. Given the current

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Here's the deal; there's nothing special about my friendship with Shab (Shabnam). Sure she's Iranian and I'm Israeli but we met at a yoga class. We talk about girl stuff, our husbands, work, motherhood and even more often, food and diet. I never befriended an Iranian I befriended Shab ( and then her husband ). I'm not ignorant and I'm sure I'm just as much of a bigot as the next person, but I

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STEVE WEIZMAN, Associated Press Writer. SF Chronicle/ SF Gate 4/17/2007Israel's Shin Bet security agency has questioned an Israeli of Iranian origin suspected of agreeing to spy for Iran, officials said Tuesday, accusing the Islamic republic of stepping up its attempts to recruit visiting Israelis.The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity under agency rules, did not say when the man, who

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Moran Rada. Israel News. 04/13/07 (http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3387408,00.html)Iranian Jew and his Muslim wife flee to Turkey but Israeli authorities refuse to allow her immigration status, says she poses security risk but a return to Iran may mean death Furia Hajaran, an Iranian-born Jew, has long since dreamt of living in Israel and recently that dream has come to include that

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Born in 1962 in Teheran, Iran, Rita emigrated to Israel at the young age of 8. She went on to become one of the most popular singers in Israel. She released her first album in 1986 to instant acclaim combining Middle Eastern vocals with pop rhythms. In 1990, she gained international recognition when she represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest. She has starred in such theatrical

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Accessed 04/15/2007 (http://www.answers.com/topic/persian-jews)Bahram V King of Persia (421–438). Jewish mother Dan Ahdoot - Stand-up comedian Jonathan Ahdout - Actor Sa'ad al-Dawla - Physician and statesman Rashid al-Din - Doctor, writer, and historian David Alliance - British businessman and a Liberal Democrat politician Shmuley Boteach - Rabbi (Persian father) Sacha Baron Cohen - Comedian (

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Orly Halpern, The Jerusalem Post. 11/03/2005 Ishak can't wait to get "home" to Teheran. After he immigrated to Israel two years ago, said the short man with dark circles under his eyes, his life became increasingly miserable. Standing and fretting inside his empty shop on Jerusalem's Rehov Ben-Yehuda, Ishak (not his real name), a 51-year-old Jewish-Iranian who is in Israel now only for a final

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SF Chronicle. Carla Marinucci 04/11/2007(http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/10/BAGV9P6C0S6.DTL) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran. The

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Hossein Derakhshan is an active Iranian Journailist/ blogger who was interviewed by a popular TV show named Uvda on his trip to Israel. See the video footage at:http://i.hoder.com/archives/2007/03/070323_015886.shtml(in Farsi, Hebrew and English)

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Associated Press 03/15/2007(http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/15/interpol.argentina.ap/index.html) PARIS, France (AP) -- Interpol plans to issue international requests for the arrest of five prominent Iranians and a Lebanese militant in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Argentina, the international police agency said Thursday.Interpol

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The New York Review of BooksVolume 54, Number 2, February 15, 2007By Gholam Reza Afkhami and over one hundred othersTo the Editors:We the undersigned Iranians,Notwithstanding our diverse views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict;Considering that the Nazis' coldly planned "Final Solution" and their ensuing campaign of genocide against Jews and other minorities during World War II constitute

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International Herald Tribune. Nazila Fathi. February 26, 2007(http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/26/news/holocaust.php) TEHRAN: A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has issued a statement to denounce the Holocaust conference held in Tehran in December, calling it a move that endangered peace and hurt the reputations of Iranian academics.The Iranian government organized a two-day

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http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7BDFD2AAC1-2ADE-428A-9263-35234229D8D8%7D/36QUESTIONSINFARSI.PDF

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By Persianmirror.com. Accessed 03/19/2007(http://www.persianmirror.com/celebrations/noruz/noruz.cfm)GlossaryKhaneh Tekani - Spring Cleaning Sofreh Haft Sin - The Seven S's of the New Year Chahar Shanbeh Suri - Red Wednesday Bonfire Festival Deed-o Bazdeed - New Years Visits Norooz History - New Years Roots Sizdah Bedar - The Day 13 Outing Sal Tahvil - New Year's Times Sofreh Haft Sin Photo Album

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BBC News. Nick Childs. 03/06/2007(http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6421597.stm)A majority of people believe that Israel and Iran have a mainly negative influence in the world, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. It shows that the two countries are closely followed by the United States and North Korea. The poll asked 28,000 people in 27 countries to rate a dozen countries

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The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. 09/08/06(http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/searchview.php?id=16427)By Karmel MelamedRepresentatives from Southern California-based Persian-language satellite radio stations and television shows attended a special press conference on Aug. 28, held for them at Los Angeles' Israeli consulate, the first public interaction between the Israeli government and

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"Iran's Global War Curriculum" by Dr. Arnon Groiss is published by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace. The text presents findings on anti-semitic text in Iranian school textbooks.http://www.edume.org/

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Arms Control Today. November 2004. Dalia Dassa Kaye (http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2004_11/Kaye.asp) The Middle East has all it takes to frustrate international arms control regimes. Key regional actors do not recognize one actor’s right to exist, let alone share diplomatic relations. Countries in the region perceive their own security as requiring the insecurity of others, leading them to

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Message from Tiffany Collins: Please note that "The Fortune Catcher" contains both graphic language and sexual references.SARAH HOROWITZ. Bulletin Correspondent. Jewish SF. Friday July 10, 1998.(http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/9075/format/html/edition_id/172/displaystory.html)Layla, the heroine in Susanne Pari's first novel, "The Fortune Catcher," is a

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February 23, 2007/ 6 AdarI 5767 Tiffany CollinsWhen I first started the Jewish Persian connections project, there was a subject that kept gnawing at my conscience. Why do we Jews eat Haman ears to celebrate Purim? For those of you that need a refresher, let’s start with some history.Purim is a festive Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of all the Jews under the authority of the

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ABRAHAM RABINOVICH , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 18, 2007 (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467760619&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)The threats of mutual destruction wafting between Israel and Iran were drowned out this week by an Iranian Shi'ite, Hossein Derakhshan, walking the streets of Tel Aviv with "I love you Teheran" emblazoned on his T-shirt. The 32-year-old former

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Rachel Safier contributed to the reporting of this story. December, 2006(http://www.momentmag.com/features/dec06/2006-12_Iran.html)Copywrite Moment Magazine The complex tale of how the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus the Great—the world’s “first” Zionist—metamorphosed into the Israel-Hating nation we know today.How Jew- Friendly Persia Became Anti-Semitic IranAbdol Hossein Sardari didn’t look

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(Note by Tiffany Collins. Despite my devotion to honesty and exposure of divergent opinions, I've never been fond of equating any figure to Hitler regardless of political affiliation or religious background. However, I do find this article worthy of being read by anyone interested in Israel-Iran relations!) by Justin Raimondo October 27, 2006(http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9923)

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The Middle East Media Research Institute(http://memri.org/bin/opener.cgi?Page=archives&ID=SP140807)Special Dispatch Series - No. 1408 January 3, 2007 No.1408 In a December 28, 2006 interview with the Iranian website Baztab, which is affiliated with Iranian Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai, Iranian Presidential Advisor Mohammad Ali Ramin said that Hitler was Jewish, and that Hitler's

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The Middle East Media Research Institute(http://memri.org/bin/opener.cgi?Page=archives&ID=SP118606)Special Dispatch Series - No. 1186 June 15, 2006 No.1186 Iranian Presidential Advisor Mohammad Ali Ramin: ‘The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel’On June 9, 2006, the reformist online daily Rooz reported that during a visit with students at Gilan University in

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(http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36324)Analysis by Trita Parsi*WASHINGTON, Jan 26, 2007 (IPS) - As the Feb. 21 deadline for Iran to halt its uranium enrichment programme fast approaches, both Iran and the West are scrambling to prepare themselves for all possible moves by the other side. A scenario causing some discomfort among decision-makers in the George W. Bush administration would entail

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HaaretzJanuary 25, 2007 (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/812597.html)By Meron Rapoport Hossein Derakhshan's T-shirt is the only thing that gives him away. "I love Tehran," it says. Actually the shirt is the only thing that would lead one to guess that the affable, young-and-restless technology aficionado is not from here. He's from Iran, and proud of it. He was born in Tehran, grew up

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Edited by the Director of Publications of The Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, this book contains over 400 pages of extensive historical documentation of the lives of the Jews of Iran. Contains extensive color imagery and comprehensive photographs of monuments, manuscripts, objects, and individual and family portraits as well as exposes by leading scholars in the field of Judeo-Iranian

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Sean Penn, Special to The ChroniclePublished August 22, 2005 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/22/DDGJUEAF041.DTL DAY ONEIn June, Sean Penn and two friends traveled to Tehran. It was Penn's first trip to the country. What he found was a culture in conflict. Although the nation is ruled by a very conservative, tradition-bound government, Penn talked to many younger

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BY KARMEL MELAMED, JTA. ST Lewis Jewish Light. Published January 18, 2007 http://www.stljewishlight.com/Nation/286446386199413.phpLOS ANGELES —The generation of Persian Jews who escaped Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution with their parents and traded a fearful existence for lives in New York and Los Angeles are now emerging in the entertainment industry. Whether it's producing Oscar-winning films,

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By Hailey Eisen. haeisen@uwo.ca Published Feb 16, 2005 http://www.fims.uwo.ca/olr/feb1605/interfaithhe12.htmBefore an Islamic bride is married, she receives jewels from her close family which symbolize her only inheritance. For Jinous Hamidi, this traditional Persian ceremony was celebrated at the Delta Chelsea in Toronto, the day before she kissed her Jewish groom under the chupaat the Art

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by Edwin Black. Sunday, January 8, 2006 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/08/INGODGH99Q1.DTLMahmoud Ahmadinejad has shot to the forefront of Holocaust denial with his rabble-rousing remarks last month. But it's more like self-denial. The president of Iran need only look to his country's Hitler-era past to discover that Iran and Iranians were strongly connected to the

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Last Updated: Friday, 22 September 2006, 06:46 GMT 07:46 UK By Frances Harrison BBC News, Tehran (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5367892.stm) The Jewish presence dates back nearly 3,000 years. Although Iran and Israel are bitter enemies, few know that Iran is home to the largest number of Jews anywhere in the Middle East outside Israel. About 25,000 Jews live in Iran and most are

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ALJazeera.net (http://english.aljazeera.net/news/archive/archive?ArchiveId=25137)UPDATED ON:MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 20062:52 MECCA TIME, 23:52 GMT An international contest of cartoons on the Holocaust has opened in Tehran in response to the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper last September. More than 200 entries from Iran and abroad are on display The

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