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Megillat Esther — The book of the exile

Purim is an extraordinary festival in the Jewish calendar. It can be distinguished from all the other festivals by the character that it was granted in later generations, but mainly by its most primary source – Megillat Esther itself.

Libyan Jewish exile to leave country

A Libyan Jewish exile attempting to restore Tripoli\’s main synagogue will leave the country following angry protests.

Solving the riddle

In Los Angeles and New York and elsewhere in the West, families who had left Iran \”for the summer,\” to\”wait out the troubles\” and \”return in time for the kids to start school in September\” realized there was no going back.

This time, I remember

It\’s been 30 years since I left Iran, and I still know I\’m going back some day, because I have to see that house again, to stand before the yard door and discover if it\’s indeed 12 feet high, or if I\’ve imagined it so, to ring the doorbell and see if I can hear its chime echo up and down the street.

Escape, exile, rebirth: Iranian Jewish diaspora alive and well in Los Angeles

Thirty years have passed since the massive and violent demonstrations against the Shah of Iran that began in September 1978, and for many, the start of that country\’s bloody revolution might seem a faded memory. Yet I have carried those shattering events with me all of my life: I was born on in Tehran on Sept. 11, 1978, as chaos unfolded on the streets outside

Exile’s gains and losses

I don\’t know what will become of the legacy of Iranian Jews outside of Iran, how history will judge us in the context of the opportunities we had and the extent to which we helped make the world a better place with what we were given.

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