Soraya Fata
By Soraya Fata
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Culture If you’re an Iranian Jew with an Israeli husband, watching ‘Tehran’ can be complicated
I don’t know what I was expecting from “Tehran,” the Israeli spy thriller about a Mossad intelligence agent sent to Iran to disable the army’s radar system so that the Israeli Air Force can bomb an Iranian nuclear plant. But, because of my strong connection to both countries, I’d been anticipating the release of this…
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Culture This Thanksgiving, I will remember not to take my family for granted
When I was growing up, my mother always encouraged me to form strong connections with my cousins. “Blood is thicker than water,” she said. She was a second generation Jewish-American. She grew up in Chicago’s Albany Park, which was a vibrant Jewish immigrant neighborhood at the time. Her Jewish-Persian father had one sister and two…
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