So when my friend Meesh invited me to go with her to a Jewish-Persian wedding, I said: “OMG! Yes, of course! I’ve been waiting for this.” True to our Middle Eastern nature, we got all decked ...

Fifteen years ago, in his early years of officiating Persian Jewish weddings ... had to ask the happy couple whether the food at the wedding would be certified kosher, because that was also ...

Leaders of the community hope the dating site will increase the number of Jews who put down roots in the Gulf communities. (JTA) — Earlier this month, Bahrain’s Jewish community celebrated the ...

About 1,500 guests are expected to participate in the wedding of Rabbi Levi Duchman ... will highlight the increasing openness of Jewish life in the Persian Gulf. But the Jewish presence in ...

and asked him to basically make a video which is me going on a crash course Persian wedding. He wanted to make it like other non Persians would experience a wedding for the first time, and how ...

But actual Jewish weddings are much more than that: They have before, during and after phases, and they vary widely throughout the world. To explore Jewish women’s experiences of their weddings ...

But on the wedding day, Rabbi Akiva’s daughter offered ... The story is set in 12th-century Kaifeng, China, the city where Persian Jewish merchants established China’s first Jewish community.

is arguably one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. Several years ago, I tutored a Persian Jewish girl for bat mitzvah, and I gently teased her: “Who knows? You might be related to Qu ...

So when my friend Meesh invited me to go with her to a Jewish-Persian wedding, I said: “OMG! Yes, of course! I’ve been waiting for this.” True to our Middle Eastern nature, we got all decked ...