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Dear Friends

On April 27th, World Zoroastrian Chamber of Commerce and the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York are co-sponsoring “Conversations with Tenaz Dubash.”

Please join us for a screening of Tenaz Dubash’s documentary film, “Crisis in Faith: Zoroastrians Today.” The film will be followed by a brief question and answer session along with some insights on how Tenaz started her career.

Sunday, April 27th, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Anthology Film Archives
32, 2nd Avenue (at the intersection of second avenue and second street) in lower Manhattan (parking on the street is free on Sundays)
New York, NY 10003 USA
Telephone: (212) 505-5181

Q&A, Raffle and DVD sales to follow.

Please RSVP to Shaun Mirza so we can get a pre-count of how many people we have attending. Shaun can be contacted at Shaun_Mirza@Countrywide.Com

Tickets will be sold for $10 at the door on the day of event starting at 2:00pm sharp.

If you would like to explore some of the restaurants in the neighborhood either before or after the film, we reccommend Lil Frankies and Boca Chica. Menus for both can be found on menupages.com or citysearch.com.

“Crisis in Faith: Zoroastrians Today” is a personal journey about an American Zoroastrian filmmaker’s quest for the truth around the controversies facing followers of her faith today, focusing on the dwindling number of Zoroastrians worldwide and the treatment of Zoroastrians as a religious minority in Iran. The film was shot in Boston, Chicago, Iran, India, New York, and Vancouver.

Clips of the film have been shown on CNN International. It has been screened at Harvard University in April 2008 and was mentioned in the New York Times.

For more information, please visit: www.tenazdubash.com

This screening has been generously co-sponsored by ZAGNY (The Zoroastrian Association of New York) and WZCC (The World Zoroastrian Chamber of Commerce). The views expressed in the film are entirely those of the producer, Tenaz Dubash, and are not endorsed by ZAGNY.

Dear friends of ZAGNY–Little children in Iraq need our help!!! These are little innocent hearts that know nothing of politics, power struggles, and natural resources. They are budding spirits who need support. We are told that they don’t want us to send money but supplies – since money can’t buy much in Baghdad where the shelves are empty. Clothing–for babies, kids, and young adults are needed—especially shoes; Also needed are –paper, pens, stickers, and crayons.

Let’s open our hearts to help those who have suffered unnecessarily.

Please bring in these items to the Darbe Mehr at our Apr. 6th religion class. THANKS.

Khursheed P. Navder

This morning New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, celebrated NauRooz with the leaders of all ethnic communities observing NauRooz holiday at a breakfast at Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the New York City Mayor.

A gathering of almost 50+ individuals included five Zoroastrians (Zarin Mehta, President New York Philharmonic; Shirin Khosravi, President, IZA; Cyrus Mehta, well-known lawyer; Kayhan Irani, famous artist; and myself)–quite a representation for a small community.

After taking photographs with all attendees separately, the Mayor shared the breakfast at each table starting with mine. Afterwards, in a short speech, he acknowledged the contribution of all ethnic communities in the celebration of NauRooz, a time for rejuvenation and a time for “spring cleaning”. The event turned out to be very informal as everyone had a chance to mix with the Mayor and other guests.

Homi D. Gandhi, Main Representative,
FEZANA NGO at the United Nations

As originally posted on http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080325/NEWS03/803250370

(Accompanying video can be seen here)

POMONA - When Farzeen Patel’s mother was alive, she celebrated NauRooz by cooking a special meal and blessing family members by circling a silver tray laden with rice, coconut, chilies and incense, seven times over their heads.

But since her mother’s death, and since Patel’s busy life as a therapist doesn’t allow for elaborate meals and rituals, she and her family go to the Arbab Rustam Guiv Darbe Mehr on Pomona Road to celebrate NauRooz, the Zoroastrian New Year.On NauRooz, Zoroastrians around the world welcome the spring with special prayers, food and the Haftasheen table, which bears fruits, flowers, grains, wine and sweets, among other symbols of the changing season.

Zoroastrianism is one of the smallest and one of the oldest monotheistic religions in the world. Its central message - think good thoughts; speak good words; and do good deeds - was preached by the prophet Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, as the Greeks called him, at least 2,600 years ago. …Read the rest of this entry »»»