Persians of Israel: Rita
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One of Israel’s most successful pop stars, Rita, discovered her love of singing as a child in her native Iran. But it was her family’s migration to the Jewish state that enabled her to build a career as a singer, while also posing challenges that she had to overcome as part of an Iranian immigrant family. Rita’s passion for her Persian heritage eventually led her to produce a Farsi-language album, All My Joys, in 2012. In this Persians of Israel episode, Rita tells VOA’s Michael Lipin how the album’s popularity with Iranians caught her by surprise and inspired her to reach out to the Iranian people. She also reveals how her interactions with Iranians have led her to set a new - and perhaps daring - career goal.
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I am an Iranian. Iranian people are friends with the Israeli people. We also hope that Rita performs in Iran some day. We are proud of her in Iran. We love Rita. Happy Norouz to all Persians in Israel and around the world.💖💖💖
@sores6762
Жыл бұрын
نه بابا، 😁
@ahmedyosri1922
Жыл бұрын
You may join her...haroomzadeh
Dear Rita. You do our old country much honour. I haven't been in Iran the last 40 years, but the day you will give concert in Iran, I will be there too. Long live the love and friendship between people of Israel and people of Iran 💖💖💖
LOVE RESPECT FROM A ANCIENT CULTURED CIVILIZED LAND OF THE PERSIANS!!!!!!!!!!! IRAN!!!!!!!!!!
@rockyracoon3233
2 жыл бұрын
Persia will rise again very soon!!!
@aryashar2542
Жыл бұрын
@@rockyracoon3233 AMEN!!!!!!!!! THE NEW GENERATION IS TIRED OF THE TERRORISTS LOVING GOVERNMENT. THEY WANT A TRUE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT. LONG LIVE IRAN!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE THE SHAH!!!!!!!!..... LONG LIVE THE PAHLVIES!!!!!!!...... IN THE NEAR FUTURE FRIENDSHIP RESPECT BETWEEN IRAN ZAMIN AND ERTZ ISRAEL.
@slayedclaw317
Жыл бұрын
@@rockyracoon3233 With out you
It makes me so upset to hear Persian Jews say they had to hide their Judaism, it breaks my heart. Because they are Persians that are Jewish. They even look so Persian its in their DNA in every way. Love and Peace to my brothers and sisters in beautiful Israel, but to hear they got made fun of there is heart breaking too. Persian Jews are some of the oldest race of Jews in the world, its in history books and the Bible
@tahervhz5798
2 жыл бұрын
Iranian Jews are now living in Iran comfortably, working, going to university, I am Iranian, every Jew I saw never left Iran, Iran has no problem with Jews, it has a problem with the Israeli government
@agostocobain2729
2 жыл бұрын
@@tahervhz5798 Yeah they love Iran
@rockyracoon3233
2 жыл бұрын
Once the Ayatollahs are overthrown, Iran will return to its glorious past and rise again!
@NewVideoTech3000
Жыл бұрын
@@tahervhz5798 Americans don't understand that Iran have great education and it's safe for jews, unlike USA!
@slayedclaw317
Жыл бұрын
@@rockyracoon3233we don't like you
I have met Your father in an aeroplain (from Helsinki to T-A in some 1999-2000). He was a tall man and very handsome towards Your mother. I stil rember him. He was slim and propably living his last months or weeks. - I lost my father when I was not 10 years; he was droven over by a son of his friend; the boy with his Jaguar had sat in a bridge board with his parets and my father, so that he recognized my fater as a dead body besides of the road. He, the young man with his car, was a son of one of the ritchiest person in Finland then, in 1965. And I was 9 years and to be 10 after two months. I didn´t cry then, and I didn´t cry later in the funerals. I dont cry even today - even thought my mother and both of my brothers are dead and I´m the only one leftb from the family. But I cannot stop crying because what happened some weeks ago in the Sauthern Israel. Rita. Delete all my posts if You want to do so - and delete me too if You feel so. I just met You, but not by any "accident" - it was us; now I say "us" and You may guess what I mean by "us" and with us, You and me, all the Israeli people. I was going to fly to Israel a couple of months ago; I had bought the one way ticket, booked a hotel room at Ben Jehuda for 2 nights, and I knew how to get to Ester HaMalka street and the aliah center there. But a day before my flight I felt that it´s not a good idea - when the streets were full of protesters and everything was out of track; the coalition was dysfunctional and everything was uncertain there. - And now I feel that I should be there with all those people with whom I´m crying day and night. The "erev" was "kachol" and "amok", but not in the way what it was on the roof top of the Mukraby hostel in 1998. Rita. I love You. Please, try to do what I would do in Israel - as a medicine doctor.
We all have to dream that one day Iran and Iranian people will be free again
Love from iran❤
Rita jan - I am watching Mafia Queens on Arte! You’re amazing! Be omide piroziye noor bar tariki. And may two ancient cultures Iranians and Israeli be united again, as we have always been. And may all of West Asia unite for shared prosperity and peace.
Amazing such a delightful video i love you Rita you are full of positive vibes and energy ♥️✨
Rita, you're absolutely a genuine person. So honest with your your "self " ,first and your fans. I really admire your character
What a wonderful women!
Beautiful woman!
i am persian and i love all jewish brothers and sisters and i love rita she is so beautiful❤
A cook book please thank you for posting this
כל הכבוד ריטה!! אין פשוט אילך! אני אוהב אותך!!! השנה הבאה באירן!
Delightful interview
God bless isreal Christians are with you, and Iranians
Verygood.thankyou.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Love her
She's so charming ❤️
Excellent and insightful interview. In ancient times, there was a mutual affinity between Israel and Iran (then Persia) as recorded in the Books of Esther and Daniel. In the present climate such a rapprochement seems highly unlikely. But who knows? Maybe the indominatable will of the people of both nations, rather than the politicians, and religious leaders, can bring this about. Build bridges not walls!
As a Iranian I can say we will always stay with Palestine 🇵🇸 and we are against the apartheid regime
Just to clarify, the animosity that our dear Rita was talking about, is absolutely not between the two nations of Iran and Israel. It’s between the politicians… the current regime in Iran is not representing the majority of Iranian people.
i love persians here in montreal , googoosh my favorite , pakistani food mmmm haleem and bread , salty yogurt drink , rice , sweets , they are kind and respectful,
Coolest regards from Kurdistan 👋👋👋
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Your dream will come true about one year later
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אני אוהב אותך מאוד מאוד מאוד❤
I was born and raised in Iran we had loads if jewish neighbours and we sow them as part if our culture , I do not believe Ritas story sorry. I remember when Ofrahaza an Israeli singer came to Tehran and give concert my mother and her friends gone crazy . everyone loved jews in Iran , they are us and belong to US ,
Jawid Israel 💙🇮🇱💙🇮🇱💙🇮🇱🔯🕎✡️💙🇮🇱💙🇮🇱💙🫶💙🫶💙🕊
Iran 🫶🤝Israel 🫶🤝💙🇮🇱💙
I love Rita❤️ But can you please stop saying the erroneous endonym "farsi"? It's called Persian language. It's Persian. Not farsi!
@warpeace6097
2 жыл бұрын
Persian and Farsi are two different things..the official language of Persian is Farsi although they included several other languages in the plateau Of lran...
@tony5benz
Жыл бұрын
Farsi or Parsi is the same thing as Persian. Persian is the English way to say Parsi. … same language
@eliza1826
Жыл бұрын
Farsi is the language, Persian is ethnicity my friend. Iranian here
@yarsaz4347
2 ай бұрын
@@eliza1826 You're just wrong mate. Persian is both an ethnicity and a language. Farsi is not an English word and should not be used when speaking English. It's like calling the German language Deutsch
But there are Jews living in Iran right now. they vote and we are fine with one another.
why do my tax dollar fund this lmao
@LJ-ke4pm
2 жыл бұрын
Because otherwise Iran would nuke the shit out of America
@MarysiaKosowski
2 жыл бұрын
Some of us are actually here because we're fans of Rita.
@bahmanghahremani6080
2 жыл бұрын
Because it’s educational, and offers the possibility of bringing people together.
@oneilc818
2 жыл бұрын
@@bahmanghahremani6080 It's not the United State's job to bring Israel and Iran together, that's the Israeli and Iranian governments' jobs.
@bahmanghahremani6080
2 жыл бұрын
This was not a U.S. diplomatic or military intervention; this was a human interest news story, and the purpose of all such stories is a feel good nurturing of understanding among people. Yes, the news item is from Voice of America, which is funded by-though independent from-the U.S. Government. But that funding is probably costs fractions of a penny from our taxes. And if the U.S. government purpose is not to spend meager change to support independent news that promotes goodwill, then what is the point and purpose of America? To export Coca-Cola and McDonald’s?