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.

A Venezuela-born, Catholic-raised Jew by choice, Reyna Simnegar was not her future mother-in-law's idea of a desirable match for her beloved son Sammy. The woman, a Persian Jew who fled Iran in the ...

When Shabnam Nowrouzi began planning her lavish wedding to Alex Spithas last year, she knew what her Iranian-immigrant parents expected. Colorful textiles, dancing and so much food that guests could ...

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 ...