דער קערפער פֿון השם"[F]or #Jews who fled #Iran in the decade after the #Islamic #Revolution in 1979, the military campaign represents a long-awaited reckoning with the brutal regime that forced them into #exile. An estimated 60,000 #Iranian Jews emigrated, and tens of thousands settled in the #US, with the largest communities in #LosAngeles, south #Florida, northern #Texas, and the #LongIsland suburb of #GreatNeck, #NewYork, where #Farsi is heard as often as English along Middle Neck Road and #Israeli flags hang in the windows of shops and #Persian restaurants.
“You can’t just have peace for nothing. It clearly just doesn’t land on the table. You have to work at it, and sometimes you have to fight for it,” said #JasmineRokhsar, a Persian #Jewish Great Neck resident. “I think #Iranians understand that well. I think #Iranian Jews understand that better.”
#Rokhsar left Iran as a kindergartner in 1978..."
https://forward.com/news/809305/iran-persian-jews-great-neck-los-angeles/
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