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  • NightOwl
    Member
    • Nov 2006
    • 63

    #106
    when In Iran, every laws and politics is rewised by a group of Mullahs called Shorayeh Negahban or even Vali Faghih, before it gets its way to the parlement (which is also a celergical base), then how can I separate the religion from politics..
    Last edited by NightOwl; 11-30-2006, 07:05 AM.
    YOU! Wake up.

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    • Rasputin
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2005
      • 63906

      #107
      Originally posted by NightOwl View Post
      when In Iran, every laws and politics is rewised by a group of Mullahs called Shorayeh Negahban or even Vali Faghih, before it gets its way to the parlement (which is also a celergical base), then how can I separate the religion from politics..
      Well they mixed it ,not us.. they are guilty for what they did to jewish bahaei zartoshti ppl .

      My dear Owl,you can talk about this in Politic section,here, we can just talk about religion :=) .

      iran

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      • mike435
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2006
        • 2104

        #108
        Originally posted by NightOwl View Post
        LOL redwine..... in this way... after occupation of palestine the next must be Iran, ha?... LOL.. Although it is already occupied by same sh** but different A*' holes... lool

        what the **** is that soposed to mean


        G-d determines who walks into your life....It is up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.


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        • mike435
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2006
          • 2104

          #109
          [ame]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2163522853850857048&q[/ame]


          G-d determines who walks into your life....It is up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.


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          • donsaeid
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2005
            • 28300

            #110
            DEAR MIKE AND NIGHTOWL PLZ WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE AND RESPECT OUR RULES!

            see this as last warning!
            نه غزه نه لبنان جانم فدای ایران


            «در زندگی زخم*هايی هست که مثل خوره روح را آهسته در انزوا می*خورد و می*تراشد.»
            صادق هدايت؛ بوف کور

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            • mike435
              Senior Member
              • Aug 2006
              • 2104

              #111
              yea g-dfather
              DONsaeed if i may ask you to grant this one favor on the day of your daughters wedding day and not warn me


              G-d determines who walks into your life....It is up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.


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              • Rasputin
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2005
                • 63906

                #112
                The Jewish Prostitutes of South America (Series: The Writing Life)

                In the summer of 2002 just as I felt I was beginning to make progress on the research for my book Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas, the Brazilian national soccer team won the World Cup, becoming the first team in history to win the Earth’s most prestigious soccer championship four times.

                Moments after the victory, Brazilians across the country took to the streets to celebrate. In Rio de Janeiro, where I was living at the time, the drug-lords who ruled the hillside shantytowns celebrated with loud bursts of gun fire which seemed to echo throughout the city. Thousands of people, dressed in the green, blue and yellow of the Brazilian flag, sambaed on the beaches and blocked traffic.

                Of course, none of this should have had any influence on my research into the lives of Jewish women from Eastern Europe who were forced to work as prostitutes in Brazil, Argentina and the United States between 1860 and 1939. But when a proud nation of 180-million people decides to go into spontaneous party mode, the country seems to grind to a halt.

                The National Library, where I had so painstakingly tracked down rare historical texts shut down for the victory celebrations. The National Archives, where I had become an almost daily visitor, poring over the yellowing copies of ships’ manifests dating to the beginning of the twentieth century, simply shut down without further notice.

                But compared to the other problems I would encounter in my research into what is still considered a taboo subject in Brazil and Argentina, the World Cup victory seems today like a pleasant diversion.

                In hindsight, I embarked on the research into the white slave trade rather naively. I certainly never expected “historians” in South America to escort me out of their offices and homes when I mentioned the Jewish prostitutes. I didn’t expect to find many of the police documents and hospital records pertaining to the thousands of impoverished women forced to work as prostitutes and shunned by their fellow Jews to have simply vanished without a trace.

                I spent five years searching in vain for the registry book from the cemetery that the prostitutes established for themselves in 1916, in Inhauma, a bleak industrial suburb on the outs***ts of Rio de Janeiro. It was during my first visit to the cemetery – a sad, overgrown tropical graveyard of broken gravestones and eerie silences – that I resolved to write a book about these women. I later found out that they had come to Brazil, to Argentina, the United States and even to South Africa and India to join their new “husbands.” Many of the women I profiled had been “married” in their down-at-heel shtetls to elegantly dressed strangers who promised them a better life in the New World. But once they arrived at their destinations, they were shuttered in brothels and cut off from their families and their coreligionists.




                At the cemetery in Inhauma, you can still make out some of their faces in the sepia-toned plaques affixed to their graves. For decades, they have been condemned to silence, their stories still a source of deep shame for many of their descendents.

                This was the reason that the registry book at the Inhauma cemetery had gone missing, or at least it was the theory of the cemetery’s faithful custodian, who has lived next door to the graveyard for the better part of the last forty years. Yes, there had been a registry book once, he told me. But after the final burials in the 1970s, it had simply disappeared, as had the regular visitors who came to pay their respects to the dead.

                “Nobody comes here anymore,” said the custodian Daniel Rodrigues, who regularly clears the crude stone pathways of weeds and tries as best as he can to keep the cemetery from turning into a total ruin. In recent years the drug traffickers from the neighboring shantytown, known as the Wet Rat Favela, have scaled the cemetery walls and pried open the graves in order to hide their weapons and drugs from police.

                “The people buried here came to Brazil to suffer,” said Rodrigues, on one of my visits to Inhauma. “And now their stories are forgotten.”

                But as soon as I walked past the cemetery’s iron gates, which are adorned with a large Star of David, I was determined to tell those stories. My book details the stories of three such women. The first, thirteen-year-old Sophia Chamys, arrived in the country from a shtetl near Warsaw in the 1890s. Rebecca Freedman, the most famous of the prostitutes, arrived in 1916, and devoted her life to founding the women’s synagogue and running the burial society. The third, Rachel Liberman, sailed to Buenos Aires with her two children in the early 1920s, and later testified in court against the Zwi Migdal,the Warsaw- and Buenos Aires-based mafia that trafficked in Jewish women. Liberman’s testimony eventually led to the break-up of the powerful mafia.

                At times, writing about the lives of these women seemed an impossible task, but the more difficult the research, the more inspired I became to see it through to its conclusion. There were almost no written histories or letters written by the women themselves to draw on because the majority of the women forced into prostitution were illiterate. Instead, I pieced together individual stories from police records, academic studies and interviews. I was lucky enough to find the minutes of meetings for the Society of Truth, the prostitutes’ mutual aid organization in Rio, dating back to the 1930s, and stretching into the 1960s. I was also lucky enough to find the Society’s final accountant, an elderly black man with a noble disposition.

                “There was nobody like them,” said the accountant, Alberto da Costa, who is now 82. “I will never forget them.” I found Alberto’s name among the minutes of the Society of Truth. I was sure it would be impossible to find him, and was quite startled when I plugged his name into the Rio telephone directory, and found myself speaking to him about women like Rebecca Freedman on the phone.

                When he finally agreed to meet me in person, we sat sipping tiny cups of sweetened coffee in a high-rise shopping mall in Rio. I questioned Alberto about every aspect of the Society of Truth. At one point, Alberto had tears in his eyes when he spoke about the prostitutes. He told me that in the 1950s when they hired him to work at their synagogue, the women had taken up a collection to put him through school. He still wears the ring that they gave him when he graduated.

                “I’ll speak to you,” he confided to me. “I want to honor their memory.”

                With Bodies and Souls, I hope I have done just that.

                iran

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                • Rasputin
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2005
                  • 63906

                  #113
                  اينترنت مفهوم خيلی چيزها رو عوض کرده و خيلی نشدنی ها رو ممکن. از جمله نمونه های جالب استفاده از اينترنت کاری است که يک کليمی ايرانی کرده: گورستان آن لاين بهشتيه. سازنده سايت بهشتيه، ظاهرا سال 2003 سفری به ايران کرده و از اغلب سنگ قبرهای گورستان بهشتيه در خيابان خراسان تهران که يهوديان را در آن دفن می کنند، عکس گرفته و در يک سايت قرار داده تا يهوديانی که نمی توانند به ايران بروند، محل دفن بستگانشان را ببينند.



                  iran

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                  • Rasputin
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2005
                    • 63906

                    #114
                    خبري كه مدتها انتظارش را مي*كشيدم، سرانجام رسيد. پس از پنج ماه ارجاع يك تقاضاي دوباره، تهران با درخواست صدور رواديد ورودم موافقت كرده بود.

                    چندين سال است كه با يك خانواده مسلمان در ايران مكاتبه دوستانه دارم. اين خانواده مانند بيشتر مردم، شيعه*مذهب هستند. اين*كه من يهودي هستم و چندين سال در اسرائيل زندگي كرده*ام، براي آنان هيچ وقت مسئله*اي نبود. ولي درست در همين مورد ادارات ايراني نظر ديگري داشتند و درخواست ويزاي من را رد كرده بودند. من و خانواده ميزبانم بايد به پرسش*هاي متعددي در اين مورد، پاسخ مي*داديم.

                    خيلي خوشحالم، ولي ناگهان شك و دلهره دوباره آزارم مي*دهد. آخرين شب در آلمان مكرر به وضع پرتنش در ايران مي*انديشم. مشاجره اتمي و دستگيري سيزده ايراني يهودي در تابستان 1999. آنان را به اتهام جاسوسي براي اسرائيل دستگير كرده بودند. ده نفر از آنان در يك دادرسي بحث*انگيز به ده سال زندان محكوم شدند.

                    اصفهان.
                    ساعت*ها در اين شهر مي*گردم و تحت تأثير زيبايي آن و مهرباني مردمانش قرار گرفته*ام. تاريخ شهر اصفهان از دوران باستان آغاز مي*شود. اين شهر در دوران ساسانيان (224 پيش از ميلاد تا 651 پس از ميلاد) پايگاه نظامي بود. از اخبار پيش از اسلام مي*دانيم كه اصفهان در آن زمان از دو بخش تشكيل يافته بود: شهر «جي» كه بعدا شهرستان ناميده شد و محله يهوديان در بيرون حصار شهر به نام «يهوديه». جامعه يهودي احتمالا در زمان ساسانيان به خواست زن يهودي يزدگرد اول در اينجا سكني گزيد.

                    در خبر ديگري آمده است كه يهوديه در قرن ششم پيش از ميلاد پس از بازگشت يهوديان از اسارت بابل بنيادگذاري شده است. اصفهان زماني مركز معنوي يهوديان در ايران به شمار مي*رفت. در قرن دوازدهم، «بنيامين فون تودلا»، جهانگرد يهودي از دوازده هزار يهودي در اصفهان خبر داده است.

                    اصفهان مدت مديدي در برابر مردمان داراي خاستگاه و دين ديگر، مدارا نشان مي*داد. به اصفهان لقب «نصف جهان» داده*اند. اين شهر واقع در كنار زاينده*رود، در قرن 17 مركز تجارت بين هندوستان و اروپا بود و به اوج رونق اقتصادي خود رسيد. يهوديان آن زمان به صنايع دستي و قالي*بافي اشتغال داشتند.

                    جمعه پيش از ظهر.
                    با نقشه شهر و خوش*بيني زياد به جستجوي محله يهوديه مي*روم. مهرداد، پسر بزرگ خانواده ميزبان، همراه من به اصفهان آمده است. گويا هنوز هفت كنيسه در اين محله وجود دارد. خوشحال مي*شدم اگر يكي از آنها را پيدا مي*كردم. سرگردان در شهر در پي قرايني مانند «ستاره داود» يا حروف عبري مي*گرديم. چيزي به چشم نمي*خورد. شروع مي*كنيم به پرسيدن. پيرزني چادر به سر، ناظر پرس*وجوي ماست و به ابتكار خود با ما حرف مي*زند. مي*داند كه به چه دري بايد مراجعه كنيم.

                    پسر تقريبا دوازده ساله*اي در را باز مي*كند. با فارسي شكسته*بسته و كوتاه، خود را معرفي مي*كنم: «من يهودي آلماني هستم. مي*خواهم با يهوديان اصفهان تماس بگيرم». پسر با تعجب سراپاي من را نگاه مي*كند. مهرداد من را نجات مي*دهد و خواهشم را دوباره توضيح مي*دهد. پسر هنوز مردد است و ناپديد مي*شود. پس از مدتي برمي*گردد و به من مي*گويد كه پدرش عصر ساعت 6 به خانه مي*آيد.

                    ما به گشت و گذار خود در يهوديه ادامه مي*دهيم. ناگهان در ويترين يك مغازه اشياي برقي، يك منورا (شمعدان هفت شاخه*اي مراسم عبادي يهودي)، كشف مي*كنم. دم در ورودي از آقايي راجع به كنيسه مي*پرسم. او هم ابتدا محتاط است، ولي به تدريج مهربان*تر مي*شود و سر حرف را باز مي*كند. بعد كاشف به عمل مي*آيد كه او موسي، پدر همان پسر و كليددار كنيسه است.
                    ما ايراني هستيم و از ميهمان دفاع خواهيم كرد.

                    قرار مي*گذاريم كه با هم براي برگزاري آيين عبادي «سبت» به كنيسه برويم. با ترديد از موسي مي*پرسم كه آيا مهرداد كه مسلمان است، مي*تواند با ما بيايد. پاسخ مي*دهد: «خوش آمده است».

                    اولين نگاهم در كنيسه مي*افتد به قالي*هاي قيمتي، به ويژه كاشي*هاي بسيار زيبايي كه با تكنيك ايراني هفت*رنگ نقاشي شده*اند و در مساجد هم ديده مي*شوند، نظرم را جلب مي*كنند. موسي ما را به ديگر اعضاي جامعه يهودي كه با مهرباني ما را مي*پذيرند، معرفي مي*كند. براي عكسبرداري به من استثنائا اجازه داده مي*شود كه به بخش مردان بروم. زنان در اينجا بايد پوشش اسلامي را رعايت كنند. با روسري موهايمان را مي*پوشانيم. زني نمي*بينم كه لباس مخصوص يهوديان را پوشيده باشد.

                    موسي به اصرار ما را براي برگزاري مراسم عبادي قدوش و صرف غذاي سبت به خانه*اش دعوت مي*كند؛ مهمان*نوازي ايراني كه آن را در اين چند هفته بارها در ايران تجربه كرده*ام. هنگام برگزاري مراسم قدوش از تسلط افراد خانواده به زبان عبري، شگفت*زده مي*شوم. به طوري كه موسي توضيح مي*دهد، در ايران نيز كلاس*هاي درس براي عبري و سنن يهودي به صورتي كه در بسياري از جوامع يهودي در سراسر جهان برگزار مي*شود، وجود دارد. هنگام صرف چاي از وضعيت يهوديان در ايران سخن مي*گويد: «ما در اينجا مشكلي نداريم. كسي مانع انجام آيين مذهبي ما نمي*شود. با همسايگان مسلمان و شركاي تجاري خود روابط خوب و گاهي دوستانه داريم».

                    جرعه*اي چاي و تكه*اي شيريني مي*خورد و مي*گويد: «خانواده من از چندين نسل در ايران زندگي مي*كنند. نه شخصا و نه افراد خانواده*ام در اين كشور احساس تبعيض نكرده*ايم».

                    در پاسخ به اين پرسش كه آيا هيچ درباره مهاجرت به اسرائيل فكر نكرده*ايد، او و زنش پاسخ مي*دهند: «ايران ميهن ماست، ما خود را ايراني مي*دانيم، ايراني يهودي. مهاجرت به اسرائيل يا به هر كشور ديگر براي ما به هيچ وجه مطرح نيست». درباره مشاجره راجع به برنامه هسته*اي، پسر بزرگ مي*گويد: «ما مخالف بمب اتمي هستيم. ولي هيچ كشور ديگر نيز چنين حقي ندارد. براي برخي از كشورها اين حق شناخته مي*شود. اگر آمريكا و اسرائيل به ما حمله كنند، به رغم بعضي از انتقادهايي كه از دولت خود داريم، دست به دست هم داده از ميهمان به عنوان ايراني دفاع خواهيم كرد».

                    اظهارات مشابهي را پيشتر بارها شنيده*ام. هرچند كه بيشتر مردم ايران، خواستار آزادي و ساختارهاي دمكراتيك هستند، به ويژه جوانان از دولت راضي نيستند، تقريبا 70 درصد جمعيت كمتر از 25 سال دارد كه به جز دولت اسلامي، چيز ديگري نديده*اند، ولي مداخله از خارج را همگي رد مي*كنند. ايران بارها بازيچه بيگانگان و مصالح آنها بوده است و ايرانيان اين تجارب را فراموش نكرده*اند.

                    سه*شنبه، ساعت 9:30. با حبيب قرار ملاقات داريم. او معلم تاريخ است و چون درآمدش براي تأمين هزينه تحصيل سه فرزندش كافي نيست، در سمت راهنماي جهانگردان، كار دومي را عهده*دار شده است. در پاسخ به سؤالم راجع به قبرستان يهوديان، روزهاي گذشته پاسخ*هاي عجيب و غريبي شنيده بودم، ولي حبيب به كار خود آشناست. پس از 45 دقيقه رانندگي در خارج شهر جلو در آهني سنگيني توقف مي*كنيم. پشت آن حياط خوش*ساختي است. فورا سگ بزرگي با دندان قروچه جلو ما ظاهر مي*شود. سرانجام كسي دلش به حال ما مي*سوزد و سگ را صدا مي*كند. با احتياط به راه خودمان ادامه مي*دهيم. مرد جواني با مهرباني از ما استقبال مي كند. در حالي كه از حياط دروني به سوي كنيسه مي*رويم، دو مرد پير را مي*بينم كه ارابه*اي پر از آوار را به زحمت مي*كشند. يكي از آنان نزد ما مي*آيد و راهنمايي را شروع مي*كند.

                    خط**هاي عبري و عربي
                    چند دقيقه بعد وارد قديمي*ترين كنيسه ايران مي*شويم. گويا، 2500 سال پيش ساخته شده است. كنيسه و قبرستان به نام «سارح بت اشير»اند. اين زن بنا به افسانه*اي در اينجا مدفون است و از قدسيان محلي به شمار مي*رود و گويا از نوادگان يعقوب، *نياي يهوديان بوده است. او به يعقوب اطلاع داده كه پسرش يوسف را حيوانات درنده نكشته*اند، بلكه زنده است و بر مصر حكومت مي*كند. در كتاب آفرينش آمده است: «او چنگ خود را برداشت و نزد يعقوب نشست و به آواز گفت: عمويم يوسف زنده است و بر سراسر سرزمين مصر حكومت مي*كند». يعقوب او را دعاي خير كرد و به شكرانه اين خبر به او وعده حيات ابدي داد. برخي از حوادث بزرگ تاريخ يهود با نام او در ارتباط است. علاوه بر آن در فهرست 22 زن عادل آمده و جزو هفت شخصيت عهد قديم است كه گويا زنده به بهشت خواهند رفت. در ترانه*هاي «ييديش»، زبان يهوديان اروپايي، نيز با او روبه*رو مي*شويم. او همچنين قهرمان افسانه*اي ايراني و هندي است. در كنار قبرهاي قديمي، قبرهاي تازه*اي مي*بينيم. طبق سنت يهودي زيارت*كنندگان سنگ*هايي روي قبرها گذاشته، بعضي از قبرها با گل زينت يافته*اند. بسياري از سنگ*نوشته*هاي روي قبرها به عبري و فارسي است.

                    بازگشت به تهران
                    در خيابان شلوغ فردوسي كه به نام شاعر بزرگ زبان فارسي ناميده شده، در مغازه*هاي «يوسف» و «يعقوب» با ايرانيان يهودي صحبت مي*كنم. اينجا هم به من اطمينان داده مي*شود كه يهوديان راحتند و در زندگي روزمره مسئله*اي ندارند. اين همه يگانگي تحت رژيم ملاها؟ همان روز به كنيسه ابريشمي مي*روم. جواني كه چندان هم كم*حرف نيست، از گفتن نامش خودداري مي*كند و وقتي از او راجع به وضع كنوني يهوديان مي*پرسم، سرسنگين مي*شود و مؤدبانه مي*گويد كه به وب*سايت جامعه يهوديان مراجعه كنم.

                    25 مارس است. در هواپيما كنار پنجره نشسته*ام. پس از دو ماه اجازه دارم در انظار عمومي موهاي خود را نشان دهم. ساعت شش صبح است. پشت كوه*هاي البرز رشته سرخ آتشيني طلوع هيجان*انگيز آفتاب را بشارت مي*دهد.
                    روز عيد پوريم است. به اين مناسبت اكنون در جوامع يهودي از كتاب مگيلوت استر قرائت مي*شود. كودكان لباس مبدل مي*پوشند. عيدي است پر از شادماني كه به يادبود نجات يهوديان به اقدام جسورانه استر نزد شاه ايران برگزار مي*شود. پور، واژه*اي است فارسي به معني «قرعه». هامان، وزير خشايارشا با چنين قرعه*اي تاريخ نابودي يهوديان را تعيين كرده بود. آرامگاه استر و مردخاي در همدان است. دلم مي*خواست امروز با يهوديان ايراني جشن مي*گرفتم. خدا كند دوباره به ايران برگردم.


                    iran

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                    • Rasputin
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 63906

                      #115
                      Jews and migrations

                      Throughout Jewish history, Jews have repeatedly been directly or indirectly expelled from both their original homeland, and the areas in which they have resided. This experience as both immigrants and emigrants have shaped Jewish identity and religious practice in many ways. An incomplete list of such migrations includes:

                      The patriarch Abraham was a migrant to the land of Canaan from Ur of the Chaldees.

                      The Children of Israel experienced the Exodus (meaning "departure" or "going forth" in Greek) from ancient Egypt, as recorded in the Book of Exodus.
                      The Kingdom of Israel was sent into permanent exile and scattered all over the world (or at least to unknown locations) by Assyria.

                      The Kingdom of Judah was exiled by Babylonia, returned to the Levant, and then the Kingdom was exiled again by Rome.

                      The 2,000 year dispersion of the Jewish diaspora beginning under the Roman Empire, as Jews were spread throughout the Roman world and, driven from land to land, and settled wherever they could live freely enough to practice their religion. Over the course of the diaspora the center of Jewish life moved from Babylonia to Spain to Poland to the United States and to Israel.

                      Many expulsions during the Middle Ages and Enlightenment in Europe, including: 1290, 16,000 Jews were expelled from England,in 1396, 100,000 from France; in 1421 thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of these Jews settled in Eastern Europe, especially Poland.

                      Following the Spanish Inquisition in 1492, the Spanish population of around 200,000 Sephardic Jews were expelled by the Spanish crown and Catholic church, followed by expulsions in 1493 in Sicily (37,000 Jews) and Portugal in 1496. The expelled Jews fled mainly to the Ottoman Empire, the Netherlands, and North Africa, others migrating to Southern Europe and the Middle East.
                      During the 19th century, France's policies of equal citizenship regardless of religion led to the immigration of Jews (especially from Eastern and Central Europe), which was encouraged by Napoleon Bonaparte.

                      The arrival of millions of Jews in the New World, including immigration of over two million Eastern European Jews to the United States from 1880-1925, see History of the Jews in the United States and History of the Jews in Russia and the Soviet Union.

                      The Pogroms in Eastern Europe, the rise of modern Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and the rise of Arab nationalism all served to fuel the movements and migrations of huge segments of Jewry from land to land and continent to continent, until they arrived back in large numbers at their original historical homeland in Israel.

                      The Islamic Revolution of Iran, forced many Iranian Jews to flee Iran. Most found refuge in the US (particularly Los Angeles, CA) and Israel. Smaller communities of Persian Jews exist in Canada and Western Europe.

                      iran

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                      • Rasputin
                        Senior Member
                        • Jan 2005
                        • 63906

                        #116
                        Iran´s Jews Dismiss Outside Calls To Emigrate

                        A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native homeland despite President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial and anti-Israeli speeches.

                        In recent months, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Israeli officials and some American Jewish communal leaders have urged Iranian Jews to leave. But so far, despite generally being allowed to travel to Israel and emigrate abroad, Iranian Jews have stayed put.

                        According to the statistics compiled by HIAS, 152 out of 25,000 Jews left Iran between October 2005 and September 2006 — down from 297 during the same period the previous year, and 183 the year before. Sources said that the majority of those who have left in recent years cited economic and family reasons as their main incentive for leaving, rather than political concerns.

                        At the same time, HIAS workers in Vienna have detected a substantial increase in the number of Iranian refugees from other minority faiths, including Bahais.

                        Since the August 2005 election of Ahmadinejad, a conservative firebrand, the fate of Iranian Jewry has become part of a broader diplomatic game between Teheran, Washington and Jerusalem.

                        Ahmadinejad has repeatedly used rabid anti-Israeli rhetoric, threatening to wipe Israel off the map, and has questioned over and over again the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. Tehran recently hosted a conference to “assess” the Holocaust, and last year a leading daily newspaper held a contest soliciting Holocaust cartoons as a response to the uproar caused by a Danish caricature contest of Prophet Muhammad.

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                        • Rasputin
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2005
                          • 63906

                          #117
                          Concern about Iran's nuclear programme is felt most acutely in Israel, not least due to the fiery rhetoric of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for an end to the Israeli state.

                          Israel's military and political leaders believe Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran rejects.

                          While Israel currently supports the diplomatic efforts to halt Iran's nuclear work, there is a growing debate in Israel about whether it should attack Iran's nuclear sites.

                          For the population of Iranian Jews in Israel, some of whom still have relatives in Iran, it is a matter of deep concern.

                          Bad period

                          Every day the Voice of Israel radio broadcasts to Iran in Farsi.

                          Twice a week Menashe Amir, a Persian Israeli, hosts a rather unexpected talk show. The callers are all from Iran and the vast majority are Muslim.

                          The show attracts two to six million listeners everyday from a country where the Jewish community is just 20,000 strong.


                          The Jewish presence in Iran dates back nearly 3,000 years
                          "I would say if 10 people are calling us from Iran, only one is talking about destroying Israel or death to Israel," said Mr Amir.

                          The Iranian callers cannot ring Israel directly. They have to phone a number in Germany which is patched through to the Jerusalem studio.

                          Mr Amir is worried about the current state of affairs in Iran.

                          "I am an Iranian and I am an Israeli. This is a bad period but I hope it will be very short," he said.

                          But he says the ancient links between Jews and Iranians, which date back to the time of the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, will not be broken so easily.

                          Growing alarm

                          On a busy shopping street in Jerusalem is a line of several shoe shops all run by Persian Jews, a sign of the thriving community here.

                          Many of these families came to Israel after the Iranian revolution in 1979. But that did not put an end to their connections with Iran.

                          While Persian Israelis are reluctant to admit visiting Iran, it is possible to travel there by getting permission from the Iranian embassy in Turkey.

                          But these days, things have become more difficult. There is growing alarm that Iran's atomic energy programme could be a cover for nuclear weapons.

                          For many Israelis that is an unacceptable danger, which has to be stopped, by military means if necessary.

                          Iranian bomb

                          Avi Dichter, Israel's minister for public security, told a recent BBC documentary that Israel may have to take a "preventative" approach.

                          "Israel is not going to wait until the first nuclear bomb is going to be dropped on Israel," he said.

                          But not everyone here believes it will come to that.

                          Israel's tough rhetoric about military strikes could be part of its strategy to increase the pressure.

                          Yossi Melman, the author of a forthcoming book on Iran's nuclear programme, says concerns about an Iranian attack have been exaggerated, an unusual view here in Israel.

                          To me the current conflict is like parents going through a divorce. Who do you like more, your mother or your father?

                          Meir Javedanfar

                          "I don't think that Iran would use nuclear weapons against Israel or against any other country in the Middle East," he said.

                          "I believe that if Iran dares use its nuclear weapons one day in the future against Israel, it would be the end of Iran."

                          He says Israel may have to learn to live with an Iranian bomb.

                          The Ochlim Bashuq Persian cafe in the Mehane Yehuda market in Jerusalem is a nostalgic place for Iranian Israelis such as the Iran analyst Meir Javedanfar, who was born in Tehran.

                          On the walls there are old bank notes with pictures of the Shah, and battered metal pots of ashe torsh, a Persian Jewish version of chicken soup bubble away on the hobs.

                          "To me the current conflict is like parents going through a divorce. Who do you like more, your mother or your father? You like both of them," said Mr Javedanfar.

                          Mr Javedanfar doesn't want war between the two countries. But he says that nightmare scenario is becoming more realistic.

                          "Israel is going to have to take a decision of being obliterated by Iran or it is going to have to attack Iran and put the lives of 20,000 Jews there at risk," he said.

                          iran

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                          • Rasputin
                            Senior Member
                            • Jan 2005
                            • 63906

                            #118
                            نشریه "فوروراد" از برجسته ترین نشریات یهودی، گزارش می دهد در ماه های اخیر، انجمن امدادرسانی مهاجران عبری، مقامات اسراییلی و برخی از رهبران یهودیان آمریکا از هم کیشان ایرانی خود تقاضا کرده بودند این کشور را ترک کنند.
                            ولی تاکنون با وجود آن که این گروه از ایرانیان عموما اجازه سفر به اسراییل و مهاجرت به خارج را دارند، آنها ترجیح داده اند در وطنشان بمانند.
                            مارک پرلمن، نویسنده این گزارش، با استناد به آمار انجمن امدادرسانی مهاجران عبری، می نویسد در فاصله اکتبر 2005 تا سپتامبر 2006 تنها 152 نفر از 25 هزار یهودی ایرانی جلای وطن کرده اند که تقریبا نصف رقم مدت مشابه یک سال پیشتر است.
                            در فاصله اکتبر 2004 تا سپتامبر 2005 دویست و نود و هفت یهودی از ایران مهاجرت کرده بودند. این رقم در یک سال پیشتر 183 نفر بود.
                            نشریه "فوروارد" اذعان می کند با وجود آن که محمود احمدی نژاد، رییس جمهور ایران، کشتار یهودیان در خلال جنگ جهانی دوم به دست نازیها را انکار کرده و خواستار نابودی اسراییل شده، یهودیان مهاجر دلیل مهاجرت خود را بیشتر مسائل اقتصادی و خانوادگی عنوان کرده اند تا انگیزه های سیاسی.
                            نویسنده این گزارش از قول برخی از ناظران نقل کرده که دلیل اصلی یهودیان برای ماندن در ایران این است که می گویند آزادانه می توانند مناسک دینی خود را انجام دهند. میئر جاودانفر، تحلیلگر امور خاورمیانه و ساکن اسراییل به نشریه "فوروارد" گفته است یهودیان ایرانی در ایران زندگی راحتی دارند.
                            این نشریه اظهار می کند رمز برخورداری از این تسامح، توافق رهبران یهودیان و مقامات ایرانی است تا یهودیان در قبال این آزادی، وارد عرصه سیاست داخلی نشوند و در ستایش اسراییل چیزی نگویند.
                            با این حال، برخی از جمله سام کرمانیان، دبیر کل فدراسیون یهودیان آمریکایی ایرانی تبار در لس آنجلس، می گویند یهودیان باقیمانده در ایران عمدتا سالخورده اند و غیر از فارسی، به زبان دیگری صحبت نمی کنند. پس طبعا گرایشی به مهاجرت ندارند.
                            "فوروارد" سپس به موارد تبعیض علیه یهودیان ایران اشاره می کند و می گوید آنها از سوی ماموران وزارتخانه های ارشاد و اطلاعات تحت نظرند، ولی می افزاید برخی گزارشهای مربوط به بدرفتاری نیز بی پایه و اساس است.
                            ویلیام بیمن، کارشناس امور ایران و استاد انسان شناسی در دانشگاه مینه سوتا، می گوید: "برخی می کوشند از فضای ناشی از سخنان احمدی نژاد و مناقشه اتمی سوءاستفاده کنند، ولی یهودیان ایران، زندگی جمعی نسبتا بانشاطی دارند و حتی می توانند در چارچوب قوانین حکومت اسلامی، از رژیم انتقاد کنند."
                            در مقابل سام کرمانیان نظر متفاوتی دارد و می گوید: "با توجه به وضعیت و فضای کنونی، برخی از یهودیان ایران می گویند اوضاع خیلی بد نیست، ولی کلیت تصویر، منفی است."
                            نشریه "فوروارد" در ادامه این گزارش خاطرنشان می کند که محمود احمدی نژاد با وجود اظهارات آتشین ضد اسراییلی خود، مراقب بوده که اشاره ای به یهودیان ایران نکند و حتی دفتر وی به بیمارستان یهودیان تهران کمک مالی کرده است.
                            مفسری به نام امیر سیروس رزاقی به این نشریه گفته است: "دولت ایران سخت می کوشد میان دولت اسراییل که با آن مشکلات اساسی دارد، و ملت یهود بخصوص یهودیان ایران تمایز قائل شود. علاقه ای واقعی برای نگه داشتن جامعه یهودیان در ایران به چشم می خورد تا به دنیا نشان دهند دولت احمدی نژاد، ضد اسراییلی است، نه ضد یهودی. این مساله برای دولتی که می خواهد نه تنها رهبر جهان اسلام بلکه قدرتی و بازیگری جهانی باشد، اهمیت ویژه ای دارد."
                            گفتنی است یهودیان نزدیک به سه هزار سال در ایران زندگی کرده اند و در دهه 1960 و 1970 میلادی دوره ای طلایی در ایران داشتند ولی بعد از انقلاب اسلامی 1979 شمار زیادی از آنها کشور را ترک کردند.

                            iran

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                            • Rasputin
                              Senior Member
                              • Jan 2005
                              • 63906

                              #119
                              THE STORY OF PURIM

                              The book of Esther gives us a very dramatic picture of what happened to the Persian Jews during the time of King Ahasuerus'* reign, and how they were saved from total annihilation through the leadership of Mordechai and due to the important role played by Esther.

                              King Ahasuerus dismissed his wife, Vashti, in order to marry a beautiful girl named Esther (her Hebrew name was Hadassah. The name Esther is probably related to the wordstar) who kept her Jewish identity a secret from the king's palace.

                              Mordechai was cousin and guardian to Esther and would visit her every day to see how she was faring. When he discovered a plot to assassinate the king, he reported it to the king's servants and the loyal deed was recorded in the annals of Ahasuerus.

                              Meanwhile, a very high government official by the name of Haman, hated Mordechai and the Jewish people. He convinced the king to allow him to destroy the Jewish people on the 13th of the month of Adar. When Mordechai heard about the coming catastrophe he asked Esther to intervene. She succeeded in convincing the king to change his mind and in effect, to allow the Jews to use all their strength to fight against the enemy. The Jews were saved, although they had to fight against bitter enemies for 2 days.

                              The king, with Esther's persuasion, ordered that Haman be killed. Mordechai became a deputy to the King and all the Jews celebrated the great victory on the 14th and 15th of the month of Adar.

                              They "undertook and irrevocably obligated them-selves and their descendants and all who might join them, to observe these two days in the manner prescribed and at the proper time each year. Consequently, these days are recalled and observed in every generation: by every family, every province and every city. And these days of Purim shall never cease among the Jews, and the memory of them shall never perish among their descendants" Esther, 9, 27-28.

                              * Biblical spelling (pronounced Achashverosh)

                              iran

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                              • ronit
                                Member
                                • Aug 2006
                                • 51

                                #120
                                mamnoon khili zahmat keshidi ke ina ovordi!!! khili am rast migi----
                                "to be jewish is a proud"

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