Iranian Jews Get E-Mourning Website
26 Dec, 2006, 3:45 pm IST |
Priyanka Pradhan
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Iranian Jews are making use of the internet, to mourn the departed. Beheshtieh.com allows the community to visit the site, sort through photographs of graves from Beheshtieh Cemetery, to find their dear departed relatives or friends. The site, developed by L.A. resident Shahram Avraham Farzan, helps find the final resting place for generations of Tehran's Jewish people, systematically listed, with photographs. By providing a platform for e- mourning, the portal allows the Iranian jewish community to pay their respects, from across the globe. Sam Kermanian, secretary general of the Los Angeles-based Iranian American Jewish Federation, says the web site has stirred a lot of excitement because, many members of the community for various reasons, feel limited to going back to Iran. Farzan now hopes to find the financial support and time to go back to other Jewish cemeteries in Iran to add to his Web site. He has received letters from across the world, asking him to help locate their family's graves, including many from California, which is home to 160,000 Iranians. Los Angeles, Great Neck, N.Y., and Israel have the highest concentration of Iranian Jewish community. Read more here. |
Tags: Beheshtieh.com , e-mourning , website , Iranian Jewish community , internet
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