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A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

A nonprofit, independent news source to inform, inspire, educate and connect the St. Louis Jewish community.

St. Louis Jewish Light

Molok Shamshiri, an Iranian-Israeli restaurant cook, left Iran in 1964. 

Iranian Israelis worried by talk of war

By Ben Lynfield, JTAPublished April 18, 2012

TEL AVIV—Avi Nobel lived in Tehran and is sure the Iranian people want peace.  “There are a lot of poor people there and what they want is food and to work, not a nuclear bomb,” says Nobel, a spice seller here whose goods include some imported...

Facebook page brings Israelis, Iranians together

JTAPublished March 19, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Iranians have responded to a Facebook page posted by an Israeli couple that communicates the message that Israel loves Iran. The Love and Peace Facebook page created on the evening of March 17 by Israeli graphic artists Ronny Edry and his...

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