“…this is a community that exists all over the place, but if you live in LA you know that the Persian-American community is really strong,” Andy told Ryan on their phone call. “It’s really family oriented. It’s really affluent. This is a really cool, fun, funny group of people…

Last summer, we covered a case in which a juror was removed for making slurs about Isaac Larian’s ethnicity, the Jewish, Iranian-born CEO of MGA, maker of Bratz, calling Iranians: “rude” and “thieves” who have “stolen other person’s [sic] ideas,” during a legal battle between Mattel and Barbie.

  My younger brother is currently a bona fide atheist who observes Yom Kippur because my mother stopped ordering him to. Ten years ago, post bar mitzvah, he had a revelation and decided to observe the sabbath. “Why are you doing this to us? We didn’t raise you to this way!” was my parents’ outcry. [...]

By Meir Javedanfar “Ensuring that Ahmadinejad continues as president and that a coalition of powerful figures and reformers does not gain power is an overwhelming concern for the Supreme Leader, which may explain his actions surrounding Iran’s most controversial elections to date.”

We think – and we realize that this is pure speculation – that the slang Yiddish term, “Oy Vey”, which roughly means: “Oh No”, may very well have been created by, or at least derives from the Persian Jews.

We think – and we realize that this is pure speculation – that the slang Yiddish term, “Oy Vey”, which roughly means: “Oh No”, may very well have been created by, or at least derives from the Persian Jews. The Farsi slang for “Oh No”, is “Ey Vay” – pronounced: ay-vaay – and is used [...]