Gina Nahai: Staying true to our own heritage
Gina Nahai
June 1, 2011
I once wrote a novel about an Iranian Jewish woman who grows wings and flies away from her husband’s home.
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City, County Officials Celebrate No Ruz at Westwood’s Persian Square
Karmel Melamed
April 7, 2010
On March 28, nearly 10,000 Los Angeles Iranian Americans of various religions, including local Iranian Jews, celebrated the Persian New Year of No Ruz on Westwood Boulevard in Westwood Village, with the official naming of a street corner as Persian Square. Los Angeles City Council man for District 5, Paul Koretz, was on hand for the ceremony; he introduced a motion in the council to name the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Wilkins Street as Persian Square earlier this year.
IRANIAN ELECTION ANALYSIS: All Iran candidates will bolster Hamas, Hezbollah ties
Jewish Journal
June 12, 2009
One winner has already been declared in the Iranian elections: The Internet, used by more than 23 million Iranians, or 34 percent of the population. But that figure alone cannot be used to determine which of the four candidates will win. At the very most, one can assume most Web users will vote for reformist candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi or Mehdi Karroubi, rather than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mohsen Rezeai.
Car Wash Brothers Face Labor Abuse Charges
Karmel Melamed
April 23, 2009
Since two local Iranian Jewish brothers were charged with a 176-count criminal complaint by the L.A. City Attorney’s Office in February for alleged labor law violations at their car washes, many area Iranian Jewish business owners are quietly expressing support for the pair. And some believe they are being singled out for political reasons.
Oldest Jewish Immigrant From Iran Arrives in L.A.
Karmel Melamed
March 25, 2009
After living in Iran for more than a century, witnessing the rise and fall of three kings and the upheaval of an Islamic revolution 30 years ago, 102-year-old Heshmat Elyasian arrived in Los Angeles two months ago with her immediate family to become the oldest Jewish immigrant from Iran to resettle in Los Angeles.\n
L.A.’s Top Ten Mensches — big hearted Angelenos
Jewish Journal
January 1, 2009
The Jewish Journal created this list as a response to all those lists extolling fame, money, power and hotness. We honor these special ten because they are just people — menschen, to use the proper Yiddish plural — who understand the power and possibility of just one person.\n\nMeet Gabriel Halimi, Kim Krowne, Manijeh Youabian, Andrew Wolfberg, Susan Corwin, Ari Moss, Richard Braun, Bracha Yael, Jack Matloff and Neil Sheff
Creditors force Ezri Namvar into involuntary bankruptcy
Karmel Melamed
December 30, 2008
Trusted friend of the community on hot spot as fight over lost $400 million begins
Nessah Young Professionals party like Paris Hilton; New VP for Masorti women
Danielle Berrin
September 19, 2008
Nessah Young Professionals\’ Aug. 26 annual gala drew more than 600 local Iranian Jewish young professionals and college students to the Area nightclub in West Hollywood, where they danced the night away to live music while also raising money on behalf of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).
Who you calling rebbetzin, why you dissing Palin, what college anti-Semitism?
Jewish Journal
September 18, 2008
\” . . . I am just an average person that fits the person you describe in \”Post-Palin Depression.\” I do not have a therapist, but I have been in depression for almost two weeks now . . . \”
Escape, exile, rebirth: Iranian Jewish diaspora alive and well in Los Angeles
Karmel Melamed
September 4, 2008
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
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