\n"What are doing reporting on us? You should find yourself a real job, a nice Jewish girl and get married!" said a prominent Los Angeles Iranian Rabbi to me when I approached him for an interview several months ago. Immediately he tried to convince me that my coverage of the local Iranian Jewish community was futile because I was not getting rich doing it. I tried to explain to him that my work as a freelance journalist wasn’t necessarily based on any desire to earn a living, but rather to bring about change for the better in the greater Jewish community. As is the tradition among most Middle Eastern Jews, I was then bombarded with the rabbi’s generous hospitality to enjoy food, libations and even in the…blind dates he and his wife would set up personally for me!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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