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The first stone

I just got two emails from the same address with the subject heading: “Iran needs your help!” I, of course, automatically opened them thinking it

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Under the shade

Father died a year ago tomorrow. I still feel the vast empty expanse of the loss. Only now, where there used to be pain, there

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Punch

email us My daughter came home today from school and for the third time told me that a boy in her class was teasing her

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Not kosher

New York, after Los Angeles, is home to the largest Persian-Jewish community in the U.S. We have more than 50 temples and about a dozen

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Baptized in tears

I went to see Googoosh in New York the other night. The concert was more like a collective roezeh khooni — a tearful cleansing bash,

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