For more than 25 years, Shofet worked alongside his father, Hacham Yedidia Shofet, the community\’s longtime spiritual leader, who died last summer.
The merger of the three groups signifies a desire within the Iranian Jewish community for greater participation in the larger Jewish community and a desire to attract Jewish youth to its cause. After more than two decades in the Southland, Persian Jews are organizing to present a united front for their community.
Yosef Setarehshenas wants to revive and introduce Jewish Persian art to the world.
During three successive days last week (May 5-7), incendiary devices, described by some as Molotov cocktails, were hurled at the Baha\’i Faith Community Center, the Iranian Synagogue, Da\’at Torah Educational Center and Valley Beth Shalom, one of the leading Conservative congregations in Los Angeles.
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