Iranian jews

Trump must consider terms for Iranian people in potential deal, expert warns - interview

Roya Hakakian, who fled Iran as a teenager, warned that watching two major militaries fail to bring down the regime would have a devastating impact on the Iranian opposition.

A woman walks next to an anti-Israeli mural on a street after US President Donald Trump said that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, April 8, 2026.
A reported photo of the damage to the  Rafi Niya Synagogue as the result of a strike in Tehran.

Tehran synagogue damaged by missile strike according to Iranian media reports

Festival goers dance at the Nowruz spring equinox festival at the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Persian Jews mark Nowruz in New York City as war with Iran casts a shadow

Cyber Is Not a Luxury.

Iranian emigre entrepreneur wages war on hackers


Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

When met with a crisis — when the king’s evil adviser, Haman, decreed that all the Jews were to be killed — Esther looked deep within herself and realized she had strength.

'Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther' by Rembrandt, 1660, at Moscow's Pushkin Museum

Growing up in Iran made parenting through Hanukkah hard in the US

Hanukkah was hard for Persian families like mine, because 'if you're not suffering, you're not doing it right' was the guiding mentality.

Rooftops of Yazd on a sunny winter day in Iran.

US Holocaust Memorial, Iranian website launch Holocaust education project

The project, named after Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat based in Paris who saved many Iranian and non-Iranian Jews in occupied France.

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Jews from Arab countries, Iran are in need of support

The Kaddish Initiative takes root

Baghdad Jewish cemetery where Sass Peress' paternal grandfather is buried.

Grapevine June 19, 2020: Independence on social media

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

RAISING THE flag ceremony on Philippines Independence Day.

US condemns Islamic Republic for execution of Iranian Jew in 1980

40 years ago Iran's regime murdered Jewish community leader Albert Danielpour on bogus charges.

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Iran's chief rabbi says Zionists 'do not represent Judaism'

Leaders in the community have long been stressing the difference between Judaism and Zionism in order to distance themselves from Israel and prevent Iranian Jews from being considered pariahs.

Iranian Jews pray at the Abrishami synagogue at Palestine street in Tehran December 24, 2015..

New US State Dept report blasts Iran’s Rouhani for antisemitism

Holocaust denial and repression of Iranian Jews remains a ‘pervasive’ problem.

Iranian Jews pray at the Abrishami synagogue in Tehran, December 24, 2015

Hard-line Iranian students threaten to destroy Jewish sites

A hard-line student group in Iran has threatened to destroy the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in the north of the country in revenge for the Trump administration’s peace plan.

The Shrine venerated as the tomb of Esther and Mordecai in Hamedan, Iran

Iran Jewish MP calls US assassination of Soleimani 'a criminal act'

'Members of the Jewish community, like the rest of the Iranian society, are present and will stand for the ideals of the revolution.'

Iranian Jews pray at the Abrishami synagogue at Palestine street in Tehran December 24, 2015..