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February 21, 2019

How Some 1,800 Jewish Children Escaped Iran to Brooklyn during the Revolution

Operation Exodus.

In 1978, as the revolution that overthrew the shah of Iran was beginning, Chabad-Lubavitch Ḥasidim launched Operation Exodus, in which they brought hundreds of Persian Jewish children to their enclave in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights. Dovid Margolin explains how this came about:

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February 21, 2019

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