Rebecca Sassouni

חֲזַק וַעֲמַץ Be Strong Resolute Matriarchist Sheer-Zan

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Jun 16, 2025, 11:42 PM

I Was There When This Happened; It Could Again

The cover of the November 15, 1977 New York Times read, "Clashes and Tear Gas Mar Shah's Welcome in Capital." As Israel continues to prosecute the Western World’s war to disarm Iran’s theocratic dictatorship, I recall that day in...

May 1, 2025, 9:22 AM

Yom Ha Atzmaut: Arak Cheer, L’Chayim, To Life!

Yom Ha’Atzmaut! L’Chayim! To Life Pledges! This past weekend, my husband and I went to dinner at 12 Chairs at the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, location. If you haven’t been, go. It is everything to love in a restaurant: Fresh food, casual,...

Apr 2, 2025, 4:11 AM

Ashkefardim: No Ruz, Nissan, Together, Still

Our synagogue hosted its first-ever No Ruz celebration last week. An extraordinary evening of live piano performances and dancing by youth and readings of Hafez poetry. I felt it resonant on many levels for me as an individual, for my...

Mar 6, 2025, 12:23 PM

Christian, A Good Samaritan Saved Me, Alone

Farsi Fairy Tales begin with, “Yekee Bood Yekee Nabood, Gheyrahz Khoda Heech Kas Nabood.” This translates as, “There was one, there was no one. Other than God, there was no one.” My fairy tale begins there because I believe it...

Mar 2, 2025, 6:40 PM

Our Daughters, Our Sons, Our Torah: Shekalim

Shavua tov! This is the first of occasional posts on my new Times of Israel Blog. I expect to write about the nexus between secular and religious experience. I had some incredible “Godwink” experiences yesterday that I write to...

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About Me

Rebecca Yousefzadeh Sassouni is an attorney, mediator, and Jewish life cycle officiant in private practice, Of Counsel to a Family Law Firm. Sassouni, also, is a elected Director to the Nassau County Bar Association, and, currently serves in her third term elected to a public school board of education on Long Island, and is immediate past president. Sassouni is an officer and past president of SHAI, Sephardic Heritage Alliance, Inc. a nondenominational Persian Jewish not- for-profit organization. Sassouni is a Matriarchist: enobled by and tethered to the fortitude of millenia of Persian Jewry-- Torah, family, tradition, humanity. Her writings have been published in various periodicals. Views expressed on the TOI Blog are those of the Author alone.

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