jar writes:
that there are over 20 Synagogues in Tehran alone
Artie writes:
All I could find was 18.
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maybe we are talking about two different Irans?
I dunno whose stats are correct here but there seems to be some definite hair splitting going on.
If Iran were as purely anti-Jewish as you seem to be suggesting then it would be a miracle for there to be any synagogues at all wouldn't it?
Link writes:
As tensions between Israel and Iran ratchet up, one community is caught in the middle: Iranian Jews living in Israel. Many of them maintain strong ties with their homeland, and with the possibility of war looming, they're uniquely conflicted.
In a small, cluttered apartment in Jerusalem, Naheet Yacoubi cooks a traditional Persian meal for her Shabbat dinner. Originally from Tehran, she moved to Israel when she was a child. It's easy to find Persian ingredients here, she says.
Some 250,000 people of Persian descent live in Israel, and that migration continues. But Iran still has the second-largest community of Jews in the Middle East, and the two communities are close, says Aaron Yacoubi, Naheet's husband
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Iran has the second largest community of Jews in the MIddle East....I didn't know that. Did you?
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