But as a visitor from another religion, I had the same giddy sense of discovery that I might have had if I’d slipped in undetected. The experience was new for me on two levels. I had neither been to a ...

Shahbal Shabpareh and his band Black Cats — a premier Iranian American pop group — have performed American hits with a Persian twist at upper-crust Iranian celebrations almost weekly for years.

Reyna Simnegar, author of "Persian Food From The Non-Persian Bride." (Courtesy of Reyna Simnegar) Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish holiday marking the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, began ...

The desire for marriage, more than anything, is an expression of hope. Hope that nurtures the possibility of finding that one special person with whom we all want to believe we can share the ups and ...

Of the many unusual ingredients in Persian cuisine, rose water, which tastes like flower petals, may be the most exotic. Persians, according to Reyna Simnegar, the Jewish, Venezuelan-born author of ...