torsdag 25 februari 2010

Chrsitians, Jews, Zoroasthrians,...




I found an article about the jews in Esfahan. This is something we would like to get an impression of, besides the armenian christian community that we visited in the Jolfa area and the zoroasthrian sun temple outside the city.

There seems to be more to come in the filed of observations enlightening things in another way than the standardized (Western, in this case) media.

In the picture: Roger Cohen, New York Times, in his article from 22 February 2009 on Esphahanian jews.
This beautiful couple functioned as some sort of housekeepers in the jewish synagogue at Felestine square in Esphahan. Jadolla and Touran, together with a man who presented himself as Avraham (I thought he was a rabbi until I realised he sat there only to read the Talmud) showed us around in the synagogue. The old couple left an unforgettable impression in my mind. Who knows what they have experienced, what they have been taught and what they have longed for?

Anyway, we found places and peple clearly showing that even judaism is not un impossible idea in today's Iran. In fact they are guaranteed their (small number of) seats in the parliament, together with the christians and the zoroasthrians!

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