Hi Mrs. Avraham. Can you describe what it was like living in Iran?

There were no Jewish neighborhoods in Teheran and we mingled a lot with the Arabs. We used to play jump rope and ball with our Arab neighbors. I did go to a Jewish school though. Every day I walked two kilometers there and back to save the bus fare. If we were naughty at school we were hit with a ruler. After school my twin sister Simin and I would embroider or help our mother with the cooking. We koshered meat and chicken at home made delicious carrot and eggplant jams and made simple cakes in a special pot that baked on the gas range because we didn’t have an oven. Every school had a shul inside it. On Yom Kippur we would take along our pillows and blankets and sleep in the shul.