"Today is day 622, which are 88 weeks and 5 days of the captivity of now 53 hostages living and dead in Gaza."

"Arguably, nothing captures the resilient spirit of this city we love so well, Tel Aviv, Yafo, better than its hundreds of thousands of residents facing up to the thickest, most threats and the missiles of the IRGC, with equanimity and humor."

"and this is her living room. And with each song, a few more people get up to dance. But I see that once someone is up, they almost never go back and sit down until by the end, two of every three people in the hall are standing up and dancing, some down in front, some standing at their seats."

"The great historian Salo Baran, in probably his most famous essay, Ghetto, and Emancipation, it's called, he called out what he called the lachrymose or teary-eyed view of Jewish history that saw Jewish history as a series of pogroms and expulsions, basically. And though he was talking about the history of Jews in Europe, the same thing is true for the history we tell of Jews everywhere, including, maybe more than most, for the Jews of Iran. But that is not how the Jews of Iran see their history, which is as a 2,700-year history of relations that are more complicated, than that. There was discrimination and persecution, sure, but there were also great periods when Jews flourished in Iran, and the history of Jews in Iran in modern times, that is altogether different, exquisitely complex, as tens of thousands of Jews from Poland settled in Iran during World War II and thousands of Jews from Iraq, many fleeing from the Farhud, and there were minorities within minorities within minorities."

"And you could feel both sides of what Susan said. How, like, I still meet up with my friends early in the morning to watch the Super Bowl because there are things in America we never really left behind. And you can feel it in Suzanne Dalal, how these people, they never really left these songs behind."

"said that, which may be right for people who came from many Arab countries, but it is not right for Jews who came from Iran, who were never expelled from Iran. Tens of thousands stayed. The ones who left, most of them never stopped seeing Iran as a homeland and themselves as Iranian. The great historian Salo Baran, in probably his most famous essay, Ghetto, and Emancipation, it's called, he called out what he called the lachrymose or teary-eyed view of Jewish history that saw Jewish history as a series of pogroms and expulsions, basically. And though he was talking about the history of Jews in Europe, the same thing is true for the history we tell of Jews everywhere, including, maybe more than most, for the Jews of Iran. But that is not how the Jews of Iran see their history, which is as a 2,700-year history of relations that are more complicated, than that. There was discrimination and persecution, sure, but there were also great periods when Jews flourished in Iran, and the history of Jews in Iran in modern times, that is altogether different, exquisitely complex, as tens of thousands of Jews from Poland settled in Iran during World War II and thousands of Jews from Iraq, many fleeing from the Farhud, and there were minorities within minorities within minorities."