Hello All,

You will be glad to know that 3 Zoroastrians, Jamshed Ghadiali, Firdosh Dotivala, and Sohrab Mirza from LA, are running in the NY City Marathon race this year on November 5, 2006. Please go and cheer them on the race route or watch them on your local TV channel.

New York Zoroastrians have decided to hold a short breakfast reception in their honor on Saturday, November 4, 2006 between 11 AM and Noon. The reception will be held at

150 West End Avenue, Apt. # 9F
New York, NY, 10023

(through the courtesy of Mithoo and Khurshed Birdie).  It is very important to know the number of people attending the reception. It is also very important that we adhere to the time schedule as the Marathon participants have to leave at Noon on that day to attend to other business for the following day. 

Please send your name and number of people attending the reception to the ZAGNY President via email to president@zagny.org  no later than November 1, 2006.

Thanks,

Homi D. Gandhi
President, ZAGNY

The Asian Religions & Cultures Initiative Zoroastrian Lecture Series at Stanford University is proud to present “The Enlightenment View of Religions and Zarathushtra’s Contribution,” by Prof. Kaikhosrov Dinshah Irani, Emeritus, NYU. …Read the rest of this entry »»»

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Palace of Asia
2389 Route 70 West
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
6pm - 11pm 

Featuring: Super Raffle of Mercedes Benz and other attractive prizes.  Also a night of music, dancing, fashion show and much more!

Donation:

• VIP Seating - $100
• Adult - $70
• Student - $40
• Child Under 12 - $30

Will include Open Bar, Non Veg and Veg Cuisine, and Entertainment

Please visit http://www.zacuce.org/ for more information, view the flyer: ZACUCE Fundraiser 2006

Dinyar Vania is making his lead tenor role debut with the New York City Opera in the role of Rudolfo in La Boheme.

It will be staged at the N.Y. State Theatre at Lincoln Center at:

• Saturday, October 14th 2006, at 8:00pm  (Opening night)
• Tuesday, October 17th 2006, at 7:30pm
• Friday, October 20th 2006, at 8:00pm
• Wednesday, October 25th 2006, at 8:00pm

More information can be found at the NYC Opera website.

Dear Friends:

The Iranian Zoroastrian Association (IZA) will be celebrating the ancient Zoroastrian/Iranian Holiday of Meheregan on October 14th at 5:00 PM at Darbe Mehr at Pomona, New York.  The program will include:

• Prayers by Mobed Noshir Hormuzdiar
• Speech by Mr. Charles Hossein Zenderoudi on “Water, Wind, Earth, Fire, Zoroaster”
• Dinner, Music and Dancing – Music By Shahrokh

You are invited to attend this celebration with us.  The admission price for members is $30, and for non-members is $40 with phone reservation.  The price at the door (no phone reservation) is an additional $10.

In order for us to better prepare for this celebration, please let us know in advance if you are attending by calling:

• Mr. Bahram Soroosh at 908-642-9994  or
• Ms. Shirin Khosravi at 631-470-0884

Additional parking is available (after hours) at the Pomona Middle School across the street from the Darbe Mehr.

Iranian Zoroastrian Association (IZA)
106 Pomona Road
Suffern, New York

As published in Yahoo! News India.

Indian-born Western classical music conductor Zubin Mehta is among the five stalwarts from the arts and entertainment field who will be honoured by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this year.

Apart from Mehta, others who have been named in the 2006 list for their contribution to American culture are musical theatre composer and producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, country singer and songwriter Dolly Parton, singer, songwriter and producer Smokey Robinson, and film director and producer Steven Spielberg.

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